Word: paranoidly
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...examples of a widespread lack of sensitivity toward problems faced by women. A surprisingly and disturbingly large number of people think that issues like rape and sexual harassment are not applicable to Harvard life, and that threats to women exist only in the minds of a hysterical and paranoid "they...
...rimless glasses, thinning hair and off-the-rack gray suit make him look more like a middle-management bureaucrat than the leader of a paranoid political cult. But when Lyndon LaRouche opens his mouth, the conspiracy theories come tumbling out. In a rare public appearance last week at the National Press Club, LaRouche leveled a litany of accusations at the likes of White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan (for "drug-money laundering" while head of Merrill Lynch), former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy (for financing the Weatherman radicals in the late 1960s), and even one Agnes Harrison...
More interesting to the outside observer will be the organization of tables for the mentally unbalanced, who also exist in great numbers at Harvard. Heading the list will be the Paranoid Table, whose sessions will run something like this...
...entertaining will be the weekly meetings of the Schizophrenic Table, involving one member and 10 to 12 empty chairs, discussing a variety of subjects. If one sees a single student sitting at a deserted table snapping "What?" "What?!!" "I heard that!!!", he will know that he is watching the Paranoid-Schizophrenic Table in action. Lastly, since the faculty will no doubt feel left out by all of this, professors will hail the formation of the Senile Table, where they can sit around and forget their views on any number of topics...
...vain: abandoned by the Germans, who are losing, and cheated by fellow Belorussians, who are maneuvering for postwar advantage, he becomes a fugitive. The family breaks up, but he and some of his clan finally fetch up in Australia, where they live on scraps of bitter memory and paranoid imaginings of a comparably tumultuous future. Although they appear to be part of the vast middle-class world in their adopted country, there is an untouchable inwardness in their spirits, and eventually they retreat into armed-survivalist hysteria...