Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sneakier and subtler are the drug's invisible psychochemical changes. Dr. Ronald K. Siegel of UCLA outlines four stages to cocaine addiction. First comes euphoria, a feeling of stimulation and sexual excitement, soon followed by sadness and depression. Much later come irritability, sleeplessness and paranoia. The fourth stage, says Siegel, "is a schizophrenic-like psychosis, complete with delusions and hallucinations." One nightmare common to addicts is that bugs are crawling over their skin. Heavy crack smokers can go through all four stages in a single drug binge...
...long ago the popular "Amos & Andy" radio and TV shows provided millions of Americans with "humor" derived from the humiliationm of Blacks. Such "humor" was considered perfectly acceptable in mainstream American society until very recently, and it would still be acceptable today, if it were not for the "militant paranoia" of civil rights activists. Why isn't the battle against sexism, in its many forms and varying degrees of violence, given the same respect and support as the battle against racism? Katrina Schwartz '87 Ruthie Gelfarb...
Residents of the Quad are grumbling about the unusual coincidence that funding for renovations ran out when and only when the River houses were finished. The issue has fueled longstanding Quad paranoia about shuttle bus schedules, house libraries and the lack thereof, interhouse eating--in sum, about the treatment of Quad residents as second-class Harvard citizens...
...paranoia if they're right. And on the renovations issue, at least, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the upset Quad residents are right. Quad residents have been bypassed in the renovations process. When they are not ignored, they have been misled. Second-class treatment...
...York City drug wars, hints of the supernatural reminiscent of a South American fable and political intrigue worthy of John le Carre. The scene is a haunted, Haiti-like island, and the four main characters are a blunt Manhattan policeman, a slippery arms dealer, a volatile Caribbean dictator whose paranoia is justified and an apparently immortal dwarf who serves the others as an all-knowing but helpless intermediary...