Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mixing real indignation with forced humor, Dan Quayle does his best to shift attention away from his past. -- As fires burn out of control in Yellowstone, experts debate whether the flames are friendly or not. -- A former aide to L. B. J. suggests that Johnson had fearsome episodes of paranoia...
...writes that Johnson was at times literally crazed and that his episodic madness helped propel the U.S. into "a needless tragedy of such immense consequences ((Viet Nam)) that, even now, the prospects for a restorative return remain in doubt." He brazenly diagnoses Johnson's large eccentricities as "incursions of paranoia," which led to leaps "into unreason" that "infected the entire presidential institution...
LIBRA is the story of Lee Harvey Oswald. Don DeLillo's fascination with American paranoia has carried him, almost inevitably, to the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
Instead of a revelation, a change in character, or the resolution of a difficulty, Libra has at its center the chill that rises in the back of your mind when you see that the rays of paranoia are approaching, and you know that they are going to converge. It is a different sort of excitement, and it is not meant to give the reader a nice warm feeling...
Moreover, Sheehy astutely but unoriginally points out, some of our most recent presidents have been victimized not by bad policies, but by dangerous "character flaws." Richard Nixon's downfall was not Watergate, the argument goes, but his own feeling of paranoia that led him to order the break-ins. Likewise, Reagan's downfall was not the Iran-contra scandal in itself, but rather his inattention to detail and his willingness to delegate responsibility to zealots like Oliver North...