Word: crackpot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Igor Stravinsky says that there is no triumph in being 84. He confesses to a feeling of loneliness for his generation, a detachment from younger people "who see me as an elderly crackpot always in a snit." He's far from that. In an interview in the New York Review of Books this week, Composer Stravinsky shows that his mind is as sprightly and incisive as ever...
...perverted way; as Heinrich Heine said, "We Germans are idealists even when we hate." The other, and contradictory, quality is an alarming literal-mindedness, which made it possible even for many educated Germans to absorb and act on Nazism's pseudo science; other people have accepted crackpot theories about inferior races, but, unlike the Nazi leadership, they have not moved from the false premises to the insanely logical conclusion of systematic extermination...
...Sample: "Dear Sir-You should know that some crackpot is writing me letters and signing your name...
...happening to notice that the customer is barefoot. When he wants to look well dressed, he pulls his socks down over his sneakers. When somebody shouts in his face, his eyebrows grow six inches in six seconds. When somebody calls him a psycho-ceramic, he figures they mean a crackpot...
...Crackpot is hardly the word for Jerry Lewis, a shrewd showbusinessman who would do almost anything to make a dollar. Ever since he went Hollywood he has systematically loused up a considerable comic talent, and in the process his pictures have made millions. Patsy will make several more, no doubt about that. It's essentially a re-run of the same movie Jerry has been making over and over for the past eight years: the story of a poor twerp who becomes a rich twerp. This time he has added the insurance of a strong supporting cast of senior...