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...basement target range, collected pistols, knives and bullets, and spent hours poring over the Scriptures. He was not popular, seemed unable to stick to a job. The neighbors in the little business block around his mother's flat decided he was a "religious nut...
...Brand New Horror. To Delacroix, color was a means of expressing thought and feeling; he saw no point in mixing his pigments in slavish imitation of natural hues. And in time his heresy became modernist orthodoxy. Though his contemporaries sometimes considered him just a prodigiously talented nut, posterity had, in fact, carried his philosophy of art to a subjective extreme that would have left Delacroix himself speechless with horror...
Gehring gets $3.50 to $5 a pound for spearmint and $5 to $7 a pound for the more delicate, harder-to-cultivate peppermint. This year, all of his spearmint will go to William Wrigley Jr. Co. to flavor chewing gum. The peppermint will go to Wrigley, Beech-Nut and other gum makers. Naturally, Gehring is a faithful gum-chewer...
...village's bright-eyed mayor, Gaston Méric. Davis had trouble understanding Méric's Catalan dialect, and Méric had trouble understanding Davis' French; but ideas percolated back & forth. Said the mayor, after Davis had gone: "I felt sure he was a nut. I'm still not sure he isn't. But maybe that's what we need to have peace...
...wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters about his cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind word and a fistful of bills for the men he has ruined...