Word: crackpot
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...retired wholesale grocer in Fayetteville, N.C., named Guy Madison Brock, 73, wrote out a check for $1,000 as his contribution toward paying off the national debt, which is now $493 billion. "I'm not a crackpot," Brock declared. "I just wanted to do something for my country...
Pines read the editorial and felt gratified to have some respectable support behind what some might think her crackpot crusade. "It became a viable idea when The New York Times endorsed it," she says with a laugh...
...from the Party in 1969 for his writings about Stalin, he is respected both by dissidents and many orthodox Communists. Shortly after Medvedev's expulsion, Soviet authorities tried to have his twin brother, Zhores, a brilliant biologist, declared insane for writing a critical book about Stalin's crackpot geneticist, T.D. Lysenko...
...course Lesley is extreme, but you never lose the sense that her acts are a perfectly logical extension of her basic flaws. There are in the New York suburbs, and, of course, in other places, people, other Lesleys, who live at the edges of life, eschewing interaction for a crackpot, detached wisdom that never really weeps...
Medvedev had long been an irritant to the Soviet authorities. His first sin, in 1969, was to write The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, a chronicle of Stalin's favorite scientist, a crackpot biologist who was the final, arbitrary word in Russian genetics for more than two decades. His second sin, in 1971, was to write The Medvedev Papers, a tale of Soviet censorship and suppression of intellectuals. Neither book was published in the U.S.S.R., but Soviet officials were so angered by their publication in the West that they finally confined Medvedev to a madhouse for what they...