Word: paranoia
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...course, party organizers will contend that this is merely a gentle self-mockery in which conservatives' own acknowledged sense of risk is exposed as paranoia. Clearly conservatives want to have it both ways (an aspiration with which many of us can identify). They would simultaneously suggest that the rhetoric of "coming out" is appropriate because being conservative puts one at risk, even as they dismiss this risk as purely fanciful (and therefore a source of humor...
...Finally, many students keep awake by establishing a powerful psychic relationship with their professor, generally one dominated by paranoia. "I always keep in mind that the professor is watching me," admits John Rodriguez '03. Sitting directly opposite the professor makes students feel as though they're engaged in a one-on-one conversation. Another student resorts to "spending a lot of time wondering what my professor would look like as a woman...
...surprisingly, with the big night a month away, America is calm. The millennial cults have been keeping to themselves. Maybe the warm and fuzzy Y2K reports the government has been issuing for the last few months are paying off. The epidemic of paranoia many anticipated would be breaking out about now just hasn't materialized...
...quipped that his father was right to have called steel executives "s.o.b.s." Nixon's anger was more corrosive. He expelled pure poison on the White House tapes and had particular enemies chased by the irs. L.B.J.'s long-standing feud with Bobby Kennedy caused Johnson to descend into paranoia at times...
...soul of the film; Crowe plays Wigand like a modern Hamlet, a quiet, broken shell of a man, and endows him with incredible dignity and grace. In this quietly riveting performance, Crowe captures every nuance of his character's dilemma and slow collapse; he heartbreakingly portrays Wigand's paranoia, depression and bewilderment...