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The Mahatma and the Ism
The man who preferred the movement for vegetarianism to all these radical,
intellectual and practical-political movements would have appeared to many at
the time as crankish. Future developments, however, showed that there was
nothing ...
E. M. S. Namboodiripad,
2010
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Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
You become crankish — I used to wonder why the writers I got to know were all
so crankish. I understand more and more; it's the sheer solitude and loneliness of
the job! They all long for human contact; they want to see people, to be in touch ...
Feroza F. Jussawalla,
1997
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ...
Wallace, much later in life, involved himself in certain crankish interests (
including the Land Nationalization Society, an anti-vaccination crusade, and
spiritualism) that have made it easier for historians to treat him unfairly. Still,
Wallace remains ...
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Sunrise with Seamonsters
"It's a rather horrible life . . . You become crankish — I used to wonder why all the
writers I got to know were all so crankish. I understand more and more; it's the
sheer solitude and loneliness of the job!" While writing Mr Biswas Naipaul used
to ...
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Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
Both Omega and Zeta are for new ideas, while Lambda and especially Gamma
are preoccupied with linguistic tricks to deal with their irrelevant global but not
local counterexamples - the only relevant ones from their crankish point of view.
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Conversation Analysis: Studies from the First Generation
veying the character of the response; crankish, as conveyed by fragment (61)'s "
some", or, say, reasonable under the circumstances as conveyed by fragment (64
)'s "many", not to mention fragment (63)'s global characterization, "the shopping ...
You become crankish – I used to wonder why the writers I got to know were all so
crankish. I understand more and more; it's the sheer solitude and loneliness of
the job! They all long for human contact; they want to see people, to be in ...
Laeeq Futehally, Arshia Sattar,
2011
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Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
"Writers are crankish," Vidia said. "You get crankish from being alone." Often, I
heard stories about him — people sought me out to tell me the stories, believing
that I had to know everything about my friend. When something disgraceful was ...
Your. Aids. stories. are. 'crankish. garbage'. I FEEL intellectually insulted by the
garbage you have recently been publishing on Aids. In its total absence of logic,
of plan, of even the simplest coherence, Aids: more revelations (NA, May), apart ...
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Melbourne Historical Journal
for her daughter. One hirsute man would occasionally take out a big blue comb
and stroke his large beard'.30 Supported by crankish hippies, Burchett is
arraigned before the sensible, decent people of Australia. Ratbag is a particularly
...
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Rand Paul needs to get his story straight on foreign policy
This is the stuff of classic, crankish non-interventionism: America's enemies exist only because America goads them. You might say America is ... «The Week Magazine, Май 15»
Brave Bayern come up short as Barcelona reach final
... such as these where that refusal to cover up and crouch behind the guard even a little can become a slightly crankish note of stubbornness. «Irish Times, Май 15»
Rundle: did Sinn Fein just drop a bomshell?
... by the minor parties and would look like the de facto prime minister, being opposed from the Left, with only the crankish Right in attendance. «Crikey, Апр 15»
Question for Josh Earnest: Does Obama believe vaccines for kids …
Simple question, then: Does Obama, avatar of liberal enlightenment, share their allegedly crankish belief that parents get the final say? Or does ... «Hot Air, Фев 15»
Iraq inquiry: Minds were made up a decade ago. Chilcot won't …
We already live in a time when outlandish conspiracy theories are entering the mainstream and when a crankish party of little Englanders can ... «The Independent, Янв 15»
Moores retains faith in Cook World Cup captaincy
His belief in his ability to turn things around is admirable, yet it is also beginning to make Cook seem crankish, even obtuse, a Nixonian figure ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Дек 14»
9/11 Truth: Mainstream Media Labels 9/11 Petition to Canada's …
Their message has been heard, their crankish conspiracy theory has been legitimized as a perfectly valid “voice” in our national dialogue, and, ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Дек 14»
Ron Paul's tweets tonight show why he's a big liability for Rand Paul …
He's trying to gently nudge them in a different direction — but the more he's linked to father's extreme — and sometimes outright crankish ... «Vox, Ноя 14»
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, review: 'a hard read'
The quest to create artificial intelligence is usually thought of as a crankish pursuit. But, says Bostrom, it could happen, perhaps within a few ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Авг 14»
Occupying the Throne: Justine Tunney, Neoreactionaries, and the …
She's the leading, crankish edge of a broad cultural trend. Justine Tunney is a troll, sure, and she's not successful enough an example of her ... «Daily Beast, Авг 14»