Word: sane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While it is hard to wax rhapsodical over the prospect of Burns, Simon and Ford running the city's finances, at least such a troika would be insulated from the kind of political pressure that has made it impossible for any elected official in New York to produce a sane budget...
There are, however, some sane people, who, while Red Sox fanatics, do occasionally remove their socks, if only for a brief moment. Why just the other day I saw a pair of socks lying on the bathroom floor, but when I went to pick it up, it beat me to the punch and just walked away...
...measure of most lives, the violent acts of Patty Hearst, Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore appear deranged. But were the three women legally insane? Are they sane now? Such questions are already central to the criminal proceedings against each of them, for, following long tradition, the invocation of a psychiatric defense is almost mandatory. "When you find a guy with a smoking gun standing over a dead body, you immediately call the psychiatrist," says Selwyn Rose, himself a psychiatrist and law professor at Loyola University of Los Angeles. That tradition is now undergoing considerable criticism. Most experts consider...
...circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane Red Sox junkie would shake his or her head, order up another stiff one, and forget about it--think about the Baltimore Orioles and other more immediate matters. Hell, the sportswriters, who treated Rice like nothing short of an apparition from heaven above all year have cursed and moved...
...world of these volumes is both sane and sinister in the tradition of Kafka. Rules Relating offers this scenario...