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...achievement" was summarized by radio talk show host Don Imus on the air as a "crackpot professor from Yale creating a cockroach dating agency," Schreiber says...
Music: Was John Cage a genius or a crackpot...
...programmed chance operations and a nearly value-free definition of what constitutes music a satisfactory basis for an aesthetic? Was Cage the great artist his admirers proclaim, or was he merely an ersatz Dadaist, proudly parading around in his emperor's new clothes as he pursued a whole-grain, crackpot anarchism? "Rolywholyover A Circus," on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles through Nov. 28 and due to travel to Houston, New York City, Japan and Philadelphia over the next two years, provides some answers...
...screens before the corpses are even cold. "We have created a culture that increasingly accepts and glamourizes violence," says Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia. "I don't care what the network executives say. It does desensitize you." Others point accusingly at the media. "Every crackpot out there knows that if he can take an automatic weapon into a fast-food restaurant, the more people he can shoot, the more attention he's going to get," says Houston homicide sergeant Billy Belk. "So it encourages these weirdos...
...begin with, the biases here may well have been political as much as racial. Mansfield is commonly dismissed as a conservative crackpot who says provocative things just to be controversial. We probably hoped that our failure to devote much attention to Mansfield's charges showed that we didn't believe them. Academic biases may also have played a role--during exam period, students don't like writing stories about grade inflation...