Word: sane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fulfill a three-month lecture engagement. The official rationale was that since Tarsis' most recent underground novel, Ward 7, concerns his experience as a political prisoner in an insane asylum, he is a certified lunatic, hence not legally liable for his ravings. At a press conference, Tarsis sounded sane enough though a bit high-strung. He roundly condemned Soviet "police fascism," "bandit fascism," and "the government, which has betrayed the national cause." Then he sounded very much like any other author anywhere. "I am very sad that my books haven't sold well enough in the West...
...signers included HIllary Putnam, Professor of Philosophy; Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics; George Wald, Professor of Biology; and H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History and national co-chairman of the committee for a sane nuclear policy...
Naturally, few sane Brazilian politicians dreamed of going to elections in Modebras, and so many tried to jump into the Arena that Castello Branco had to appeal to their public patriotism to get an opposition party...
...most used words in older readers, and all went back to McGuffey, "who must have obtained his list from God." Sullivan and a research team financed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. compiled their lists instead by exploring the world of the five-year-old. "A little kid is very sane," says Sullivan. "He just won't pay any attention to something not intrinsically interesting...
...minor national epic, illuminating many affecting portraits--allowing to share young Nancy Clutter's poignant diary: "Summer here. Forever I hope"; to witness the shock of her boyfriend's agony, by which an adolescent learns adult numbness; to be harassed by the posturing gruffness of Holcomb's postmistress: ". . . the sane thing to do is to shut up. You live until you die and it doesn't matter how you go--dead's dead": to appreciate Mr. Clutter's Midwest-pastoral dream: "an apple-scented Eden"; to wince before the senior Hickock's A History of My Boy's Life submitted...