Word: paranoiacally
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...What do you think I am," demands Keenan Wynn, "some kind of nut?" Fortunately for Wynn, that is exactly what Lieut. Colonel Robert Mitchum thinks. As an American Army officer full of paranoiac fantasies, Wynn has admitted killing a British noncom stationed at his jungle outpost of Bachree because the sergeant was "defiling the white race" by consorting with native women. Mitchum, assigned to defend Wynn in a general court-martial, thinks that motive irrational enough for Wynn to plead insane and save his neck...
...actual themes that emerge from the book--the blatant commercialism of Broadway, the struggles of the unknown author--are not new. They are not freshly handled. And the hero, finally, is paranoiac. It is difficult to be sympathetic toward his talent when his naivete, his obnoxiousness, and his persecution complex stand out so strikingly. In sum, The Fanatic is a novel best described as poorly conceived, repetitive, and over-whelmingly dull...
...many, particularly in Britain, a considerable overstatement. Author-Critic Richard Hoggart expressed the belief that there had been no conspiracy at all and added: "For all kinds of historical reasons, America is much more hospitable to extremism. And there is the extraordinary availability of lethal weapons. So the paranoiac, instead of throwing himself off Waterloo Bridge, looks down his telescopic sights." Even Texas found its defenders, in a rough and ready way. Said London University's History Professor Harry Allen: "You don't conquer a great land, you don't drive off Indians...
...President with the help of Vargas' party, Lacerda fomented a coup to prevent Kubitschek from taking office; only a countercoup by loyal army officers upset the plot. All the while, Lacerda was blistering Jânio Quadros, then governor of Sāo Paulo, whom he called "a paranoiac," "a delirious virtuoso of felony," "the Brazilian version of Adolf Hitler." The two called off the feud long enough to cooperate in the 1960 elections, Quadros winning the presidency and Lacerda the Guanabara governorship. No sooner was Quadros in office, however, than Lacerda was at him again, ripping Quadros...
...modern man into despair. In a neat, if oversimplified analysis, Fromm argues that this Protestant feeling of "powerlessness" paved the way for the acceptance of Hitler. In May Man Prevail?, Fromm continues his war against the middle class with considerably less plausibility. He blames the cold war on the paranoiac attitude of the American middle class (though reserving a few knocks for Russia too), and then in a concluding chapter-written little more than a year before the Cuban missile crisis-he assures his readers that Khrushchev wants to end the cold war so badly he would never think...