Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blackout and two missed bowl opportunities (consider the potential revenue lost: just one Orange Bowl appearance is worth $2.75 million a team). The punishment prompted Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan to blurt, "They wanted us, and they got us." Calmly, Schultz replied that he sensed "a certain amount of paranoia there...
...George Bush, to overcome the Cold War-entrenched prejudices of the 1950's and look towards the achievement of peace and common understanding in the 1990's. Though the staff position acknowledges this need for bilateral cooperation and courageous policy making, its language remains caught up in rhetoric and paranoia more appropriate to old red baiters than to present-day proponents of peace...
...Republican paranoia reflects the pervasive combination of fear/reverence that politicians have acquired for television. It can make candidates look better than usual ("I want a kinder, gentler nation") or unusually silly ("Pearl Harbor day, September 7..."). But stooping to censorship pressure tactics is a dangerous, needless precedent...
...playwright Martin Sherman's Bent can be read as a parable for the anti-gay paranoia in this age of AIDS. (It is thus appropriate that this production's proceeds will go to a local AIDS action committee.) But its literal subject, the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, stands up well enough on its own dramatically...
...flip side of the optimism of the immigrants' story is the paranoia that the mass of Americans' harbor toward those who are different. As quickly as they can be stirred by the story of the son of Greek immigrants, they can be frightened when reminded that he is, after all, not named Smith, Jones or even Bush...