Word: paranoidly
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...course, this is in grossly bad taste, although cynicism prompts the additional observation that taste might not matter if the book were funny. It is not. It is paranoid. Condon clearly wrote the novel to take his suspicions for a stroll, and what he suspects is that the very rich are in conspiratorial control of the country. It turns out that Keegan's billionaire father, in the Old Joe Kennedy slot, arranged with fellow oligarchs to kill his son because President Tim was showing signs of believing his own guff about helping the blacks and the poor...
...entered college in the middle of Nixon's first term, in the middle of the most secretive and paranoid administration in the history of the nation. Nixon had accused his generation of plotting a concerted attack on American democracy, and yet it was Nixon who tried to destroy activist students through FBI infilatration...
Nixon and his fascists almost made him paranoid. Wiretapping, attempts to defame Daniel Ellsberg, lying, secret bombing--it almost made him glad to be at Harvard. Almost. He thought he might feel better if he knew who his enemies were...
...preppie just would not shut up. For days the preppie had been telling him how paranoid he had become. The preppie droned on and on; he appeared to listening, but actually heard very little of what the preppie said. It was a new-found talent, and it enabled him to cope...
Anyway, the preppie's theory ate shit. It went something like this: Unable to admit his limitations, he had constructed this paranoid world, where administrators and professors conspired to get him. Enough disappointments occurred to feed his fear; in a very real sense the system provided millions of opportunities for people bent on destroying other people. The preppie said that his paranoia made it possible for him to accept failure because in his world, failure was not his fault...