Word: paranoid
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...woke up feeling very paranoid. Too much dope, he thought...
...have a list of 27 cases--all in the last two years--where laws and decisions by government were made restricting the freedom of the press. It is neither paranoid nor shrill, nor even defensive, to point out that such actions are apparently forbidden by the First Amendment...
...result, at a time when the press faces major problems, and when the public is focusing--as rarely before--on the press as a root of major evil, the public still knows almost nothing about the press, and the press is doing precious little that isn't paranoid, shrill or defensive to correct this critical deficiency. Since Vice President Agnew has resigned to escape a jail sentence, it is easier to see--and say--that the press has overreacted to criticism, particularly criticism from on high. Long before Spiro T. Agnew launched his alliterative assault on the press, an earlier...
...neither paranoid nor shrill, nor even defensive, to suggest that this proposed legislation is inconsistent with "great exercise of freedom of the press...
...simply an academic problem. It is essential, particularly in light of recent events, to examine any possible abuse of governmental power so that steps can be taken to make sure that it does not recur. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg should be alive today. The sickness which killed them, a paranoid fear of deviancy, may be less prevalent in America today than it was twenty-one years ago, but it is still very much with...