Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away with ill economic winds. When times are bad, blacks are often the first to lose their jobs -though there have been no noticeable layoffs of black skilled workers during the current recession. Says a $35,000-a-year urban planning executive in Detroit: "We constantly live with the paranoia that we'll get sick or fired. I'm constantly aware of the fact that if I were out of work for six months, I'd be on the skids...
...spring the atmosphere had lifted. In May the Office of Women's Education sponsored a conference on rape prevention in anticipation of increasing sexual assaults, and undoubtedly this spring has been as dangerous as any spring in any city. Yet the dark spectre of paranoia from six months ago is gone...
...Paranoia strikes deep...
...Unable to admit his limitations, he had constructed this paranoid world, where administrators and professors conspired to get him. Enough disappointments occurred to feed his fear; in a very real sense the system provided millions of opportunities for people bent on destroying other people. The preppie said that his paranoia made it possible for him to accept failure because in his world, failure was not his fault...
Sometimes he wanted to write about it. He finally jotted down some notes, but it made him thirsty. On his way to the Square for a drink, he stopped at the newsstand. On the cover of that month's issue of Harper's magazine: Paranoia...