Word: crackpot
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...entry as an "expose." So, a bit later, did Birmingham's antiSemitic, anti-Negro circular, The Thunderbolt ("The White Man's Viewpoint"). So, in June, did The Winrod Letter, a oamphlet put out by the Rev. Gordon Winrod of Little Rock. Racist organizations in the South and crackpot groups everywhere photostated these pieces and sent them out as junk mail by the scores of thousands; it is estimated that at least 100,000 were received by mailbox holders in Massachusetts alone...
...preserved Foreign Affairs' role as hospitable but impartial host to all international viewpoints. A world observer of considerable vision himself-"A people has disappeared," he wrote in his 1933 book, Hitlers Reich, at a time when most of the world still considered the Nazi leader a harmless crackpot-Armstrong has yielded the floor to the world's thought molders, statesmen and diplomats...
...Phoenix papers looking for one "will-do-anything" kind of situation-wanted ad. At least five unemployed men were approached by Resnick, and all refused to kill him. One reported his strange interview to the police but was unable to identify Resnick, and the matter was forgotten in the crackpot file. At last, late in February, Sam Resnick found his death warrant in an ad that read: "SERVICE Station Attendant or anything else...
...pursuit of these goals is a delicate matter of political judgment, and the organizers of the march have, at least superficially, violated very basic principles. An effort at mass action rather than lobbying and conventional political action is extremely hazardous for a group whose principles are generally considered crackpot; the resort to picketing and marches further enforces the public's extremist image...
Yesterday Brennan said that the vote "was not the will of the people but a satchel delivered by the transient liberals who make Cambridge a laboratory for their crackpot theories." He attributed the PR victory to the great strength of the system's chief advocate, the Cambridge Civic Association, in a few isolated city wards...