Word: crackpotisms
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...descended the steep stairway into what to all external appearances looked like your typical crackpot scientist's basement laboratory. There were the obligatory vapor-emitting test-tubes, cages full of mice, and banks of multi-colored lights rhythmically beating on and off. Something seemed amiss, however. The mice weren't soiling the copies of Padan Aram that had been placed in their cages. No, it looked to me as though they were reading them...
...from the type of economics which deems human values either too vague and subjective to be adopted as goals, or as being automatically realized through the successful pursuit of wealth and power. Small is Beautiful is both a polemic against and a prescription for replacing this type of "crackpot realism...
...delving into topics as disparate as the leash law and the rising incidence of public dopesmoking. It was a sort of ad hominem filibuster, although in my assessment at the time it was a waste of time for everyone and a waste of effort on the part of a crackpot councilor. Al talked about Italian cooking, he talked about the deterioration of respect for the city council, but mostly, it seemed, he just talked. I left that meeting discouraged and disappointed that one man could act so badly in public while nobody bothered so much...
Containing over 1 million words, 250,000 words more than in the Bible, the book is both massively silly and regularly entertaining. With its jumbling of serendipitous facts and legends, crackpot theories, gossip and lunacies through the ages, The People's Almanac resembles nothing so much as an inspired collaboration between Benjamin Franklin and Rona Barrett. Paul Gray...
Ezra Pound was a contradictory civilization of one. He was the most original American poet since Walt Whitman, a magically imaginative translator, and a literary promoter nonpareil. He also produced more verbal trash than any other great writer of modern times, wasted decades advancing crackpot schemes for monetary reform, railed disgracefully at "kikes, sheenies and the oily people," called Hitler "a saint" and democracy a "swindle," betrayed his country during World War II, and in old age spiraled down through hells of paranoia...