Word: paranoiac
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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...
...followers of a kind that Sonya did not like. She hated the "institution" of her husband. Worn out by childbearing, jealous of his disciples (she called them "dark people"), infuriated by his decision to give up the copyrights on all his work after 1881, she gradually became a hysterical paranoiac. The familiar story of the last 25 years of their life together is terrible, ending in the old man's wild flight from home at 82, to die of pneumonia in a stationmaster's cottage-which the Soviet Government last year made into a Tolstoy shrine...
Accompanying the text is a picture of Miss de Havilland, knife in hand, underneath which the caption reads: "Sister is psychoneurotic. . . ." This statement is misleading. The reader is apt to get the impression that the term, psychoneurotic, means the same thing as paranoiac...
...cinema section [TIME, Oct. 21], there is an interesting review of the movie, The Dark Mirror. The picture deals with twin sisters, one of whom is described by the text as a paranoiac, a killer, and the other sister as a normal, sweet girl...
...Dark Mirror (Universal-International) begins with a shadow-menaced shot of a corpse, then plunges headlong into a feverish chase after a knife-wielding paranoiac killer. Made with considerable style, it is a more diverting whodunit than most of the current crop of movies that mix homicide with psychiatry. Thanks to some suave legerdemain in its direction and playing, it even gives the impression of being a better movie than...