Word: kook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mainlining power; many cannot withdraw once hooked. And, of course, for somebody of his flinty view of the world, he runs the high risk of never doing anything but keynoting the annual meeting of the American Conservative Union, of which he is chairman. But maybe not. He is no kook or gagster...
...move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing. And in Al Pacino he has one of the few actors who can play narcissism without seeming to be a lummox, while Marthe Keller finds a steely spine in her characterization of what might have been your standard movie kook. She is vulnerable without being pathetic, compelling without being neurotic...
...enjoyed without shame. But some have reservations about Lowndes' advice to act them out; many fantasies are clearly violent and dangerous. Says Lowndes: pray we're not naive. We have to weigh the millions of people suffering from harmless fantasies against the possibility of encouraging a kook like Charles Manson If I found that we produced one violent person with our show, I think we would fold up our tent...
...Attorney General Robert Kennedy '48, anti-Castro elements in Florida, those who suspected that the President was wavering in his commitment to South Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson. These sorts of charges, lacking the necessary circumstantial evidence, lend credence to charges that Sale is just another left-wing paranoid kook...
...perhaps untold numbers of alienated Americans who have lost the race for prestige and success, who have had unhappy childhoods, who are uprooted geographically and morally?and who would not think of shooting the President or anyone else. When does the malcontent turn dangerous? When does the harmless kook become harmful? No one can know for sure. One of the costs of democracy is the fact that the dangerous social oddball can lurk anywhere at any time, waiting to act out his or her delusions...