Word: paranoid
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...Berchtesgaden; it saw only the absurd arrested motion of Hitler's triumphant jig in the Forest of Compiègne. Millions by television and radio saw & heard Wu spew forth Communism's unappeasable hatred, cloaked in Communism's lies and muscled by Communism's paranoid vocabulary of denunciation...
...Felipe is living there in care of the butler, Baines, and his wife. Thanks to the skillful acting and directing, one sees the whole first part of the film from Felipe's point of view: his idolization of Baines and their comradeship, the ceaseless tension between Baines and his paranoid wife, Baines' subsequent affair with one of the secretaries at the embassy...
...world was a paranoid Luna Park lit by alcohol and filled with ingenious contraptions for the exercise of harmless aggression and idiosyncratic suspicion. To find out if his servants were stealing canned goods, he set up an elaborate Dictaphone apparatus. To scare off kidnapers, he would prowl his grounds at 2 a.m., armed with blackjacks and carrying on loud conversations with fictitious bodyguards. He never made his peace with the world because he saw no good reason to be at peace with...
Howard Hall is the most closely guarded building in St. Elizabeth's (mental) Hospital, Washington. All its 175 patients are criminally insane. Many are paranoid: hostile, suspicious, frightened, withdrawn into their own delusions. Last spring one inmate suggested starting a newspaper. The doctors approved, and the Howard Hall Journal was launched. Last week, as the fifth issue of the Mimeographed monthly (grown from ten pages to 20) went to press, St. Elizabeth's called it therapeutic journalism...
Hess, the doctors concluded, is probably a schizophrenic of a paranoid type (split personality with delusions of persecution). They note some warning signals: his "extremely primitive skull formation, the misshapen ears"; an attitude of simultaneous submission and antagonism to his father; an "unconscious passive homosexual disposition" and a feeling of guilt over masturbation during adolescence; a self-centered, shy, shut-in personality that craves devotion and spins fantasies of glory but is haunted by a sense of inadequacy and inner conflict...