Word: paranoiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incest of the Soul. If August Strindberg had lived in the heyday of Freud, he would probably have been locked up as a paranoiac or reduced to the status of a dull neurotic. Since he died unpsychoanalyzed, in 1912, he remained merely a famous literary figure and an exceedingly odd duck...
...completely incredible bit of hocus-pocus in which Noah fights ten big soldiers, one by one, gets beaten up and sent to the hospital and is never helped by any officer in the Army camp. While there was anti-Semitism in the Army, it never resembled Shaw's paranoiac version of it. A good, calloused editor would have helped Shaw...
...South Carolina accent was heard in more than 300 Radio Berlin broadcasts, composed largely of rancid outpourings against "the paranoiac in the White House," "Clown Churchill," "the Jew Deal," the "Bolshevik Beast...
...paranoiac gentlefolk...
When 30 Japanese police tried to arrest her, they were met by a one-man banzai charge by 380-pound Futubayama, until recently Sumo wrestling* champion of Japan. Once subdued (it took 30 minutes), Futubayama renounced the goddess. Jiko-san was judged a religious paranoiac, and released. But the continuing popularity of her brand of paranoia was affirmed when the unofficial "New Masses Party" loosed two assassins on Labor Leader Katsumi Kikunani, whose Tokyo unionists were preparing a general strike...