crackpot

O’Hara is more drawn to the plot puzzles that have encouraged interpreters to weigh in with their own crackpot notions.

It’s the unexpected hit that proves that, while there are no sure bets anymore on Broadway, success is more likely when artists are allowed the courage of their crackpot convictions.

Greenland and Canada have much better social policies, and fewer crackpot politicians, than the U.S.

Their water stays there — although every few years someone voices a crackpot idea about California importing water from the Columbia River.

As Hannah Arendt said, “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”