Word: crackpots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also offered ideas on the latency period (low sexuality preceding puberty), reaction formation (a defensive attraction to desires that are opposite of one's deeper, dangerous wishes) and something very close to the Freudian id. But, says Sulloway, Freud's disciples later dismissed Fliess as a crackpot, partly to make Freud appear as the originator of these concepts...
...Molière pressed poetic comedy and satiric wit to the edge of tears. Le Misanthrope is his bittersweet masterpiece. In a comedy of manners, Alceste's notion of telling the truth himself on all occasions and correcting the chicanery of the age clearly marks him as a crackpot bound for grief. But as the play proceeds and the caesuras required of French classic verse occasionally become pregnant pauses, Molière manages to give his compulsive critic's obsession a touch of nobility...
...band thinks so. Life in places like Akron--the factory routine, the Big Macs, the repression of natural instincts--may not literally "de-evolve" people, but it probably induces the social equivalent. The scientific basis for de-evolution seems pretty slim, but if you ignore the theory's crackpot side and think of it as a particularly inelegant form of social comment, it hits the mark...
...interviewed, it is hard to know for sure what is going on within the organization. Last week, however, TIME was given a tape-recorded message from "the real Moses David" that called the resignation letter "nothing but a completely fraudulent and lying forgery, rather shabbily concocted by some crackpot who is apparently partially demented." It only shows, the real Moses David continued, "what slimy stinking depths our enemies do not hesitate to slither to to try to stop us, including criminal acts of kidnaping, involuntary incarceration, mental and physical torture and even murder!"* Despite resemblances to earlier letters, Moses David...
...another reflection of antiscience sentiment: the current movement toward the occult, parapsychology, astrology, faith healing and all the other crackpot beliefs...