Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quality of great composers, the present is probably as rich as any period in history. In quantity of untutored, incompetent, fourth-rate composers, it is even richer. Because the public needs time to appreciate first-rate music and because even competent listeners cannot always, at first hearing, tell a crackpot musician from a genius, the work of contemporary highbrow composers is unpopular. The public prefers familiar music of guaranteed workmanship...
Sirs: The comments on Sigmund Freud (TIME, May 23) could hardly have been made by an ordinary book reviewer, because a tricky and greatly misquoted theory was handled quite truthfully. I usually expect to hear some crackpot sound off with the squirrel cage statement that all Freud's dream translations and all Freud's theories...
There is a good deal of aimless wandering about by an earnest daughter, pursued by both worthless playboy and promising young lawyer; by a crackpot son who gets sucked into the Communist maelstrom and tossed out again; and by a chivalrous judge who fell in love with Mrs. Thomas a long time ago without ever meeting her. Out of this not very diverting hodgepodge, for a while there promises to come to the fore a rankly sentimental attachment between the madame and her devoted, long suffering butler. But just as she vows not to marry again but to open...
Sentenced. Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan'') Townsend, 69, to 30 days in jail, $100 fine; for contempt of the U. S. House (TIME, June 8); in Washington's Federal District Court; in Washington. Appealing the sentence, the old pensioner cried: "My crackpot idea . . . will save America from economic serfdom...
...Coughlin-Lemke-O'Brien platform was a marvel of inclusive appeal to every crackpot and malcontent in the land. Briefly, it proposed to create a common-man's Utopia by legislative fiat. For Lemke-Coughlin inflationists there was to be a government central bank, with complete control of money and credit, which would issue new currency to retire all Government bonds, refinance all farm and home mortgages. For Townsendites, there was "assurance of reasonable and decent security for the aged." For Share-the-Wealthers, there was limitation of individual incomes and inheritances. For the benefit of anyone...