Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lolita's "wise master," crackpot Nationalist Chief Albizu Campos, called the attack on Congress "an act of sublime heroism." The Harvard-educated Albizu, who inspired the 1950 plots against Harry Truman and Munoz, had been released from prison last September because of his increasing mental deterioration. (His followers do not seem to notice that he is mad.) When police set out to arrest him at his apartment in downtown San Juan last week, they were greeted by a blast of bullets and homemade Molotov cocktails that splattered on the cobblestone street. The police drew back, began a two-hour...
...Publicity for his crackpot thesis on electrons...
...idea. Could the killer have been enraged, not at the girl, but at the American Physical Society? The inspector sought out the society's treasurer, Dr. George B. Pegram. The doctor instantly suggested an oddly named suspect: Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, a former member, who had written a crackpot paper entitled "So You Love Physics" in which he argued that there was no such thing as an electron. Peakes had been railing at the society by mail for months for refusing to publish him. His letters had been mailed from six different Boston addresses...
...Owings & Merrill has made itself one of the biggest names in U.S. architecture. Its billion dollars-worth of buildings stretch across the U.S.. and as far afield as Sumatra. What is even more remarkable, all their work is built in the rigorously modern style still referred to as "crackpot" by unobserving standpatters. Among some of the firm's major jobs: the Ohio State University Medical Center, a vinegar plant and warehouse for H. J. Heinz Co., and the entire town of Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...better than Photographer Eugene Atget. He trudged its boulevards and back alleys, aiming his antique box camera at the sidewalks, the rooftops, the chestnut trees, the shop windows and the people. Passers-by suspected him of being a lunatic or even a spy. Artier photographers ridiculed him as a crackpot and tasteless hack. Among the few to appreciate his work as time went by was U.S. Photographer Berenice Abbott...