Word: paranoid
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...Paranoid" seems to be Miss Bieberman's favorite word, and is certainly her "pet peeve." She writes in one Bulletin: "I try to keep from editorializing in the Bulletin, but I guess is's clear that one thing I'm for is candidness. Let yourself be known!" She is scornful of people who write to her without giving their return addresses, and those who come to see he secretly and are afraid to tell people that they take drugs for fear of losing their jobs. "Most people," she claimed, "Would not be against you just because you take LSD." Bringing...
...available to people who had never taken it, but those who came had used it too many times before." She made the offer, she says, to "prove a point," that one should be open about the use of psychedelic drugs. The problem, she claims, is that "people are too paranoid...
Taking brief and irreverent swipes at "The Singing Nun," LBJ, Donald Duck--a transvestite, because only drakes are really male--and Madlyn Murray--a "paranoid, nutty and aggressive, but doing good lawsuits"--be then devoted more of his time to the draft and the recent pornography cases...
...Peking leadership into the international order, instead of their trying to destroy it according to their revolutionary vision, is primarily a psychological problem. Therapy for Peking's present almost paranoid state of mind must follow the usual lines of therapy: it must lead the rulers of China gradually into different channels of experience until by degrees they reshape their picture of the world and their place in it. The remolding of Chairman Mao, the greatest remolder of others in history, is not something I would advocate as feasible. But I think it is high time
...self-pity and denigrate those who have made it in the 'square' world. They see Nirvana in LSD, with its perceptual wonders, the intensity, luminosity and throbbing of colors. True, this can be blissful, but there is danger of ego loss or psychosis when someone with paranoid tendencies or a rigid personality glimpses his personal problem. It can be truly hellish...