Word: sane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppose the day had to come when normal students leading a sane, healthy life would be labeled conservatives, and their home, in this case Schuyler Hall, compared with a cloister. May we freedom-loving Schuylerites rise up in protest against such flip comparisons, while still shunning "radical activism...
...President Nixon's health care proposals seem a little more sane than those of Senator Kennedy. If we must have some form of subsidized medicine [March 1], a $3 billion outlay seems quite preferable to the Senator's $50 billion proposal. Besides, with the Nixon plan, everybody pays at least a little. The Government giveaways have got to stop...
Doris Lessing is prepared to assume-as others have before her-that in a world gone mad, those whom the world calls mad may be the only sane ones. What she has forfeited-and the loss has to be enormous for any novelist-is the scale of humanity. To the point of abstraction she has willed herself into a universe of absolutes where nihilism and revelation, madness and sanity become the same thing. At that point she stands alone, with no life in sight but the white bird of her obsession...
...recently-formed Committee for a Sane Drug Policy took public action for the first time yesterday and called for the legalization of marijuana...
David R. Williams '72, the only undergraduate on the Sane Drug Committee, said yesterday that the group plans to launch an educational campaign to change the public's view of marijuana...