Word: paranoids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other symptoms also appear. Uncomfortable hallucinations take the place of initial euphoria; in almost all cases, the feeling of omnipotence gives way to paranoia. Shadows and trees become disguised detectives, best friends turn informers, parked cars become police cruisers. Strangely enough, the speeder usually realizes that he is paranoid, and at the start does not take his delusions too seriously. Toward the end, however, he generally finds them considerably more convincing. Though he may collapse from intense exertion, the speeder most often requires a barbiturate for sleep, which lasts from twelve to 18 hours after a short...
...comparable to that of opiates or cocaine. Worse still, the drug may lead to psychosis or brain damage. About a third of the meth heads questioned at Corona indicated that their memory or ability to concentrate had been impaired by heavy doses. "From descriptions of the intensity of the paranoid state and the hypertension associated with amphetamine use," adds the article, "crimes of violence by amphetamine users appear likely in the future...
...between Greenwich and the odd end of Greenwich Village, Linda took up with Groovy, who introduced her to the never-never world of drugs. Other hippies sensed that Linda was "not really hip." She had been around only since midsummer, and they considered her a newcomer, a "paranoid chick" who was frightened by the scene but was desperately trying to adapt. No one may ever know the full sequence of sordid events that ended her adaptation, but as police and hippies reconstructed the chain of circumstances that led to the murders of Groovy and Linda, it seemed tragically clear that...
...fine young people have sought happiness without rebellion, exhibitionism or social pressure. Black bigots will scream "Uncle Tom honkey sellout," white bigots will look for "nigger babies," political bigots will see an "L.B.J. deal" and will expose their paranoid vileness to those who view this as a mature event in a maturing country. Three cheers for human power...
...play's deadfall guy, Stanley (James Patterson), a paranoid expianist, is a mildly sinister human cipher and the sole boarder of a dilapidated rooming house at an English seaside resort. His landlady, Meg (Ruth White) cuddles and cossets him; unfailingly, she treats Stanley and her whey-faced husband to the breakfast specialty of the house, corn flakes and fried bread. Stanley has even less stomach for breakfast when he learns that two men named Goldberg (Ed Flanders) and McCann (Edward Winter) have come to the house as roomers...