Word: sane
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...effect is one of comic frustration and absolute insecurity in a universe that conspires with one's worst self to make the sane, simple life impossible. This is best illustrated in a scene where K. sits at a table and trys to read. The actors crouching behind him each poke an arm through the crook of K.'s elbow: the hands begin to attack each other while K. looks helplessly on, believing his own body to be rebelling against itself...
...Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Lorenz found instinctive aggression in animals and suggested that man is similarly programmed by evolution. Behaviorist B.F. Skinner, conversely, has long argued that man can be conditioned to forsake his violent ways. Now Erich Fromm, 73, social philosopher, psychoanalyst and bestselling author (The Sane Society, The Art of Loving), has written a new book, The Anatomy of Human Destruction (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $10.95), that challenges both schools of thought...
...Kohoutek harkens back to one of Wells's more obscure works, In The Days of The Comet, another more recent scientific popularization revives what was a major issue in Wells's life and works. That is the great debate of nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment, Shockley vs. the sane world. For, throughout Wells's works, there is a recurring pattern of ideas which centers around the stark determinism of Darwinian evolution, the possible effects it may have if inferior men continue to breed, and the need for an enlightened (ie. genetically superior) elite to rule the world. This pattern...
However, the Department of Probation retains a card with the felon's name. Under this system, 61 law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts can obtain the names of persons with felony convictions, Marsha Semuels, a spokesman for the Committee for a Sane Drug Policy, said yesterday...
...coat. "The next thing I knew I had shot him," Lester told jurors in Freehold, N.J. as they considered murder charges against him. Last week, after 2½ hours of deliberation, they found Lester not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. They also found that he was now sane, and he left the court a free man. The verdict was in keeping with past practice: in the U.S. in so-called mercy-killing cases defendants rarely get more than a light sentence and often not even that...