Word: paranoias
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...surprisingly relatable to the lives of college-aged students. Gopnik spends quite a few pages explaining the intricacies of the card game “Mafia,” which many student readers have, no doubt, played endlessly. He comments that “both eager cooperation and absolute paranoia are essential to the strategic game”—advice that enterprising and conniving Ivy Leaguers will take to heart...
...lust, constant catcalls, and unsolicited conversations, winks, and even physical contact, as if choosing to show an inch of skin—i.e. my ankles—entitled men to unwanted advances and women to judgmental looks. I could never walk down the street alone without a constant, infuriating paranoia that had me counting down the hours until my flight home. It made me resent Egypt and Islam in general, but I always had the comfort of knowing that I would eventually return home. For millions, that paranoia is an inescapable daily reality, and the consequence of a sad social...
...Game 2006: low on alcohol, high on paranoia...
...Christian, and conservative. The Republicans want to stop “activist judges” from allowing gay people to get married; that’s a political objective, and a misguided one, but not a value. Values are beliefs about how we should live our own lives, not paranoia about how we think others should live theirs...
First Minister Jack W. McConnell instituted the “Fresh Talent” initiative in 2004 to attract young people to Scotland to live and work in order to calm the forever-growing paranoia of declining population and increasing age demographic. And I, as a journalist, would absorb all the factoids of Scotland beyond the stereotypical kilts, bagpipes, Scotch, haggis, sensationalist journalism, and redheads and write about them in an intricate weaving of prose for Harvard students to read...