Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...energy enough to scoop up gifts of jewelry with both hands, or wandering around a Siberian railway station disguised as a spy, Lillie had only to cock an eyebrow to cause a commotion, drop a muff to start a riot. The world's coolest and most custom-tailored crackpot, she was never, in her satire, more unerring, implacable, uproarious...
...bearded Yankee named Charles Ives was busy writing his own kind of modernist music. Nobody paid much attention to Composer Ives's strange, complicated scores. But little by little the few music-lovers who did hear them began to realize that Ives was neither a trickster nor a crackpot, but a writer of real, live music. Today Ives is regarded even by conservative critics as one of the most individual and authentically American of all U. S. composers. But performances of his music are still few & far between...
...budget ($8,985,000,000) of all. They brought worrying to the bedside such influential Democratic physicians as John Nance Garner, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd. In Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors pump-priming within limits, answered by a letter which he gave to the press, lecturing Critic Byrd and the nation on "the pertinent facts" about the Budget, Taxes, Debt...
Twenty years ago Progressive Education was a tiny and, in many eyes, a crackpot movement quarantined in a handful of private schools. Today it covers much more territory. Now predominantly a public-school affair. Progressive Education has strongholds in the suburbs of greater New York. Chicago and Los Angeles, is transforming such major public school systems as those of Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Detroit. No U. S. school has completely escaped its influence...
CHARLES IVES: SIX SONGS (Mordecai Baumann, baritone, Albert Hirsch, pianist; New Music Quarterly Recordings, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt.). It has taken a generation for concertgoers to realize that shy, bristle-bearded New Englander Ives is no crackpot, but one of the pithiest, most individual, most authentically American of contemporary U. S. composers. The disc contains at least two top-notchers: Charlie Rutlage and Two Little Flowers...