Word: paranoiacal
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...almost any society the five men in the dock would probably have tangled with the law sooner or later. (A sixth defendant is still at large.) What made the case fascinating in France was that the five were drawn almost inevitably to the S.A.O. and its paranoiac delusions of glory from similarly abject backgrounds: broken homes, army service in Algeria, feckless drifting from job to job. In the dock they seemed almost a composite of the S.A.O. mentality. The lineup...
Times in Stalin's final paranoiac years, Salisbury had worked under the world's stiffest censorship; as a result, his blue-penciled stories in those days sometimes read more like items from Pravda than straight news. Not until Salisbury returned to New York in 1954 could he write the facts; Moscow promptly blasted him as ''ignorant" and a "liar," and refused him another visa for several years. Salisbury's latest product doubtless would win him some plaudits in the Kremlin-and some angry snarls as well...
...loud raspberry. Paris' tart-tongued France-Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil's public affairs...
Halberstam finds a link between ter in his protagonist's paranoiac pride. Because Angelo was Italian, the local burghers never accepted him. With this alienation as a basis, Halberstam makes the bootlegger a proud man who must win completely or completely withdraw, who manifests his hatred for the hypocrites of Corvallis by selling whiskey to them. Pride, however, does not succeed in uniting the two sides of Angelo. We are unsure whether he is a man terribly hurt, striking back violently, or-a sadistic artist taking pains to perform every little criminal chore in exactly the right manner...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government...