One thing you should know about CRTs - there's no development anymore. They're cheaper and cheaper, the profit margin is almost nonexistent, and many CRTs that are sold now are made of inferior quality cheap components. 
My first 17" CRT - pretty expensive at the time, 10 years ago - was very good. An Iiyama VisionMaster 17, it was. Died a year ago.
The 19" CRT I bought two years ago, also an Iiyama, was much, much cheaper than the old 17" CRT. And it's already fading.
The 19" Samsung I bought a year ago is very good. Brigth, sharp, doesn't need calibration after the initial setting. I bought a second Samsung, same model, half a year later. Copied the settings of the first one - and surprisingly, the colors and brightness on the screens are identical when they are connected to the same graphics card.. Which NEVER happens with CRTs, you have to calibrate those individually.

Also got a Dell 24" screen that I'm very happy with.

The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter

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