Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kristol also states an overriding theme among the Public Interest group: the dangers of populist paranoia and moralism, which suspects that powerful interests are constantly thwarting democratic will. This populism gives rise to "a rather infantile political utopianism," is often found on the pages of The New Yorker and is responsible (according to Robert Nisbet) for crimes as varied as the damaging disclosures about the CIA and the HEW's ban on single-sex classes...
...wheels roll and tumble; all to the tune of Kentucky bluegrass fiddling. Another short, by Canadian Paul Driessen, features little and not-so-little green monsters, fishes, and manipulative humans--the creatures swallow each other in an endless progression of gulps and burps. Perhaps Driessen suffers from an underlying paranoia--there's always something bigger out there waiting, waiting...
...student is taking an exam. Detailed footnotes are required for the essay and he panics. He proceeds to make them up, a host of bogus references. After the exam, seized by a fit of Raskolnikov-like paranoia that the teacher will check up and expose his crime, he types up index cards in the Dewey Decimal system, one for each reference, and slips them into the Widener catalogue...
...shoulder, expecting the worst. "I had read about the persecutions of Mormons in Illinois [where Joseph Smith was pulled from a jail and killed by an angry mob], and I kind of expected a little persecution," she says with a nervous smile that hardly conceals her embarassment at this paranoia. The oldest of seven children ("people always joke about Mormons and Catholics," she adds), Bybee chose Radcliffe over BYU, her parent's favorite. "They were afraid I would fall in love with and marry someone from the East." The fear, she explains, was only geographical; they did not want...
...surely remember which of the two our taxes support, or do you deliberately desire to promote paranoia...