Word: paranoias
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...resident of Eliot, I can safely say that for a large fraction of my fellow housemates, the game of Assassins dominates all activity for one week. The paranoia, the conspiring, the mad dashes to and from the dining hall—all of it adds up to quite the sporting event...
...understood that style of statecraft. He had learned from the monster himself, sitting at Joseph Stalin's right hand--or in his savage vicinity--for decades as cheerleader, yes-man and ideological dogsbody: a "nice guy," as his Kremlin cronies called him, who cheerfully survived Stalin's almost recreational paranoia even when so many of the evil crew (including Yezhov and Beria) were led offstage and shot...
Cases like Orenstein’s seem to abound. Some take on mythic proportions and lead to paranoia among Quad-fearing first-years who remember that their mother lived in what was then North House and is now called Pforzheimer House...
...terrible freedom of war--with its rush of animal adrenaline, its wild all-is-permitted, its violent necessities--inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle--deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...
...terrible freedom of war - with its rush of animal adrenaline, its wild all-is-permitted, its violent necessities - inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle - deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...