Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compression engines. Acceleration in the low-and middle-speed ranges is almost twice as fast: a 1946 model took 24 seconds to go from 10 to 60 m.p.h., the average 1955 model does it easily in less than 15 seconds: a few can do it in ten. For the crackpot motorist this is an invitation to disaster. But for thousands of others the ability to hit cruising speeds fast means fewer traffic jams, less danger pulling onto high-speed turnpikes...
...proud to be called a crackpot. Without crackpots history would be a blank...
...sweet sake, he cannot let his fighter take a dive. Dailey also has a crisis: the star of his outrageously successful TV program, Midnight with Madeline (a part that features some fine burlesque by Dolores Gray), temperamentally revolts against her prospective guest of the evening, a Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing but chewing-gum wrappers. The three ex-G.I.s are unwittingly shanghaied as substitutes for the crackpot, and from there on, Fair Weather breezes on to a stormy climax-a brawl between the good fellows...
...Exiled in 1922, he soon came to the U.S., and with the publication of his monumental Social and Cultural Dynamics, a study of the fluctuations of "sensate" and "ideational" cultures, he set the academic world to wondering whether it had found a new Spengler. Today, a mysterious mixture of crackpot and genius, Pitirim Sorokin has his colleagues wondering still...
...ANTA's Gilbert Miller, with CARE as co-beneficiary, Album served up a two-hour, hot-to-cold potpourri of Broadway bits and pieces. Some of the players were topnotch: Helen Hayes in A Christmas Tie, Saroyan's one-act Omnibus comedy about a small-town lady crackpot; Ruth Draper's monologue about a Scottish immigrant at Ellis Island; Pianist-Comedian Victor Borge's skillfully timed spoofing of Mozart and Manhattan traffic ("Every empty taxi you see has somebody in it"); and Songstress Lena Home's high-tension version of The Lady Is a Tramp...