Word: paranoiacal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...architecture. The Nazi-approved paintings were technically excellent, detailed, naturalistic studies like Stepp Hilz's tired pin-up girl Vanity. Hitler's favorite sculptor, Arno Breker, had ground out dozens of gladiators whose muscles, wrote Kirstein,. "seem pushed to explosion, the brows scowl in furrows with sincere paranoiac delusion. But they are not impressive...