Word: sane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stock room we used to call the refuge from the glue factory") and showed me the multi-colored ??? and the eighty-dollar boots. I began to realize why, in Cub?, they hand you clothes as you need them, cut pretty much like everyone else's. No one in any sane country would spill quarts of sweat on the sidewalk to load delivery trucks with the stuff they sell in Saks...
...ground him as being insane with fear. But the flight surgeon dutifully recites the Air Force manual's imaginary Catch No. 22: Naturally, anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy. So supernaturally, anyone who says he is too crazy to keep flying is too sane to stop. On such circular reasoning rests the plot, the dialogue, and indeed the film's essence...
...laughter and release are all present and unencumbered. This is a gentle and monumental play of soldiers, and lovers, and gods, of grief and crowns and consolation, of metaphor and music which even Shakespeare never surpassed. And this is one of the most welcome, the most sane, and the most honorable productions of the year...
...presidents who 'don't know how' to tame the animals they breed, and when they're replaced, as inevitably they must be, by retired Marine brigadier generals, when beasts no longer roam campuses but are locked in cages, then, and not until then, will any sane man accept your invitation...
...most equitable way to limit the number of entries and to keep Jock sane was to make ability a prerequisite, and it was hardly surprising that Will Cloney, chairman of the sponsoring B. A. A., announced two months ago that unless you had completed a marathon in less than four hours, Boston didn't want you. A runner could also qualify by doing well in two ten-milers or getting the authorization of a coach or trainer, but only a decent runner can get by those two obstacles...