Word: sane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike at North Viet Nam was understandable and justifiable as a tactical response in a war situation," said The New York Times. "It was not a substitute for policy." And, in subsequent editorials, the Times left no doubt about what it felt that policy should be: "The only sane way out is diplomatic, international, political, economic-not military...
...himself in a British jail. Hess was sent to Spandau after being convicted of war crimes at Nürnberg, and over the years rumors of madness cropped up again, fed by his refusal to see visitors. His lawyer, whom he finally summoned last week, said that Hess is sane. He wanted to make his will and be assured that his wife and son have adequate means...
Military Jujitsu. Professional patriots have always been fair game for satire but few books have ever given them a lustier Bronx cheer than Joseph Heller's sprawling, farcical Catch-22. Yossarian, the Air Corps bombardier who doesn't want to fly any more missions for the mordantly sane reason that he might get killed, is a comic creation that has already become something of a classic. In typical black-humor fashion, Yossarinan's real adversary is nothing less than the whole mad, mucked-up system, the jujitsu with which the bombardier repeatedly sets the system...
...There's a lot of insanity in loneliness," he confides. "I've got to get sane again. If you mop your wounds, it takes away from the depth of your playing." His music finds a far more receptive audience today than it did five years ago. In fact, the quiet revolution growing within the jazz world points directly down the path blazed by Ornette Coleman. "I think," he says, "I can see some sunlight coming...
...tongue out of a snake. Under Tartuffe's spell, Orgon permits the disruption of his household, disinherits his son, signs away all his property, affiances his daughter to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife (Salome Jens) into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery. This is madness, as the superbly sane Molière knew. And like an enchanted healer from some pre-psychoanalytic age, Molière devotes his play to making Orgon grow up to the age of reason...