Word: sane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deal with two-dimensional lizards becoming three-dimensional, or columns that turn from convex into concave, or water flowing up the side of a building, or fishes mutating into birds, or any of the other visual contradictions that his mad-genius mind came up with. Escher works best for sane people with clear, analytical minds. All others (and that includes most of us) confront him at our own risk...
Only a faithful following of Aquinas' teachings can keep one sane in ferreting out the substantive from the accidental, the bogus from the real in our present era. Isn't it a pity that we must still resort to a medieval man for answers to current questions...
...those who cling to the fantasy that Hollywood's Academicians enjoy rewarding controversy (The Exorcist), truth telling (Cries and Whispers, American Graffiti) or success that is merely modest (A Touch of Class). The best-actor and best-actress choices-Jack Lemmon and Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth and age were equally served by the selections of ten-year-old Tatum O'Neal and 71-year-old John Houseman, sometime producer, as supporting actress and actor...
...both cabled support on Cuba to President John F. Kennedy '40, and the Lowell Lec meeting had been called by the most activist, most pacifist organization on campus, a group called Tocsin that never had more than about 80 members. Tocsin had grown out of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy in the summer of 1960--the same year that saw a minor flurry of small student demonstrations outside the Cambridge Woolworth's, in solidarity with sit-ins to integrate the chain's Southern branches--as a small Harvard study group discussing the Cold War and disarmament. Tocsin quickly...
...excellently cast. Sissy Spacek is a thoroughly convincing Holly, Martin Sheen a superb Kit. He makes him a shabby, landlocked buccaneer, a psychotic pirate. Sheen conveys Kit's craziness so effectively because he does not ever act the madman; he is, instead, a disturbed man trying to act sane...