Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when we turn our attention to the suffering world outside, to the structure of our intransigent school, or to the University's complicity in war and racism--when we turn to politics--the University, afflicted with learning paranoia, fights us. They did so with stalling, and ultimately with clubs, in 1969. They do so in a mild way now, by making conciliatory gestures, but not acting, over southern Africa (no moral imperative may influence investment, which serves learning). And they will do so anew when once again student interests broaden...
...files released last week, which weigh 60 Ibs. and cost $4,000.10 per set, also reveal-at times unwittingly-an FBI afflicted with paranoia, obsessed with counterespionage, and out of the control of the Justice Department. Within 48 hours of the assassination. J. Edgar Hoover sanctioned the refusal of his underlings to follow an order from his superio, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. "Properly handled." commented Hoover after a bureau official had dismissed a Kennedy request as "unnecessary and undesirable." The FBI spied on the Texas judge who presided over the Jack Ruby trial, on the director of Central Intelligence...
...hoped I was leaving anti-gay paranoia behind me when I moved from my intensely conservative and moralistic home town to liberal, enlightened Harvard. But with a cynicism about Harvard one would be more likely to expect from a jaded senior, I asked my journal just before freshman week, "Did I graduate into a more mature world, or just a smarter...
...Administration's complex plan does not offer enough in the way of incentives for increased fuel exploration, the Energy Secretary insisted that the program would bring on "a golden age" for the energy companies. Yet at the same time, Schlesinger blasted the oilmen for perpetuating "myths" and "paranoia" about the plan, adding almost mockingly that they seem "to believe that all the folks up in Washington have it in for the industry...
...Posting the sketch has increased paranoia in Leverett House," Valerie Moore '79 said yesterday. "Students have even reported each other," Moore added...