Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it is used for civilian programs). Furthermore, if this same billion were released through tax cuts. 112.000 jobs would be created. Above all, we will enhance the Security of the free world, not by using the self-defeating method of an interminable escalation of armaments which only intensified paranoia, but by employing the very resources which had hitherto created bombs, towards the creation of a concord of fundamental arms. The key aims will be design and build conditions in which democracy can bloom. When there is such overwhelming agreement on strategy tactics, the raison d' etre of our stockpiles...
...felt, as an aide put it, that he had "a reasonable shot" at succeeding. Haig saw last week's trip as a chance to prepare the groundwork for serious bargaining by immersing himself for the first time in the complex mixture of history, prejudice, aspirations and paranoia that governs Middle Eastern diplomacy...
Prince of the City. A corrupt New York cop (Treat Williams) further corrupts himself as he tries to expiate his crimes. Sidney Lumet has directed a fiercely acted and harrowing descent into paranoia's hellish center...
...cliches. Her husband, an adman, is worn down by the slogans of his profession, so cut off from reality that he longs to dismiss the product entirely: "A structuralist's dream--advertising for its own sake!" There is a psychological as well as social basis for Bab's paranoia: her mother, whom she locks in the closet and taunts with lines like. "I'm fucking the dog, Mom" comes out and announces. "Children were given to us by you-know-who so that we could make order out of our own lives." It's a chilling vision, perhaps closer...
...movement--she assiduously avoids Adler and Jung--the author provides a rather scorching insight into the analytic establishment. The image of these beacons of the analytic community, privy to the holy of holies of the human mind, playing mean and vicious power games and displaying no small modicum of paranoia, induces a sobering feeling about what the phrase "psychic determinism" actually means...