If it sounds lunatic, it is.
Let's face it: Lunatics and tyrants like Bernard Madoff and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad give clowns a bad name.
But I also know that The New York Times would never have printed it, because it's lunatic and incendiary".
Some of Hubbard's fellow science fiction writers also criticized it; Isaac Asimov considered it "gibberish" while Jack Williamson called it "a lunatic revision of Freudian psychology".
It's fun, and it's lunatic and finally, after 40 minutes, the pageant ends, and Ringmaster Galliano, draped in an off-the-shoulder raccoon coat, po' boy hat atop his slick head, comes out for a bow.
If you take a car and give it to a lunatic it is quite dangerous, but in the right hands it's very useful.
It is lunatic and anachronistic, so even though it takes place in the Orient, the characters drink green chartreuse and there are people running a department store.
When one show was ending -- and they all seemed to be ending -- my secretary would say, "Only 41 more shows to go," and I would say, "Oh, God, get me through it -- what a relief it will be on that glorious day!" and of course, it was lunatic in a way because, I mean, you'd just spent 90 minutes with Lucille Ball or Jimmy Stewart.
"It seems a safe bet that you, like most Americans, would think it a lunatic idea, one that would clear the way for still more terror in this country," Gaffney stated.
