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After an entire term of being attacked from all sides, Howie Phillips is getting paranoid. His latest statement (such as it is), charging Dean Monro with unethical conduct and subversion, goes beyond all bounds of rationality and, indeed, belief...
Enver Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah) sees enemies everywhere. He accuses neighboring Yugoslavia and Greece of planning to partition Albania between them, and he jailed an admiral of the Albanian navy (four subchasers, six minesweepers) as a collaborator in the farfetched plot. More recently he has developed a paranoid fear of Nikita Khrushchev. He apparently suspects that Khrushchev might try to bring Yugoslavia back into the Moscow fold by offering Tito a free hand to take over Albania. Hoxha has found one dependable ally, who is a safe 3,000 miles away-Red China. Alone among the European satellites, Albania openly...
Fear aroused by melodrama is "paranoid." It is the feeling that "all things living and dead are combining to persecute us." "Victorian melodramatic novelists made use of bad weather, but to heighten the audience's fear the playwright must substitute outrageous coincidence...
...felony court a police psychiatrist urged that the author be committed to a mental institution. He was "having an acute paranoid breakdown with delusional thinking, and [was] both homicidal and suicidal." Protested Mailer: "It is very important to me not to be sent to some mental institution. I'm a sane man. If this happens, for the rest of my life my work will be considered as the work of a man with a disordered mind. My pride is that as a sane man I can explore areas of experience that other men are afraid of. I insist...
...year in which psychoanalysis entered the political arena. Kennedy, we are told, has resolved his identity crisis; Nixon has not. Well, then, for what it's worth, the State Department is clearly paranoid...