Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Declining Fringes. In the first postwar German elections of 1949, a total of 58 parties competed, ranging in political complexion from Communist to extreme neo-Nazi nationalists. The Communists got only 5.7% of the vote. And though sensational journalists have tried to inflate every two-pfennig crackpot into a new Hitler. German voters have steadfastly rejected neo-Nazis. In 1953 the number of parties campaigning nationally was down to twelve. Last week, though there were 14 parties in the lists, the only ones still in the race-and far behind the two leaders-were the right-wing Freie Demokratische Partei...
About your breast-beating article on the Negro and the vote: the right to vote, like the ability to procreate, is too widespread now for the good of the country. There are already too many ignorant, misguided, impressionable, crackpot voters, as witness the representatives we choose to make our laws. One thing to our credit, however: we voters aren't to blame for foisting Chief Justice Warren on the country...
...artistic value of the painting. But how far can art go in the way of justifying everything? My point is, no woman, no matter how important or beautiful she might be, has the right to be smiling "enigmatically" for nearly five centuries. The action of the Bolivian crackpot symbolizes the repressed reactions of millions of healthy men when faced with feminine enigmas...
...good social dancer. She also, he soon discovered, had the "ability to enter an uncommonly deep trance while under hypnosis." Despite the objection of her husband Rex ("Look, I just want to sell insurance and be a regular guy; I don't want to be dubbed a crackpot or a screwball"), Bernstein convinced her to go on a trip through her prenatal days--by means of hypnotic suggestion...
...example, on some spotty strength along the Harrimans' Union Pacific Railroad. They think Harriman has a two-way appeal. Says a partisan: "Because of his liberal record, he stands well with labor; because he's a businessman, the really big businessmen know that he's no crackpot...