Word: sane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After the next four years, the sane minds of the Republican party will realize that its no good to start out the election with 10 million votes against you," he said...
...change could move towards a clear resolution of the debate. The contradictions and inconsistencies inherent in each tend only to underline the sensitivity of cases in which mental responsibility is an issue. For a jury, Caplan argues, that is "not able to rule with confidence that a defendant was sane, both 'guilty but mentally ill' and 'guilty but insane' permit the evasion of the hard, unqualified choice between guilty or not guilty usually required by the criminal law." The move towards a double standard of judicial judgment for the mentally ill is tantamount to making constitutional a cynical and callous...
...older issue, but no less pressing in the wake of what has recently been characterized as a rash of "insane" political violence. A judicial system that judges the sick and arms the sane simultaneously, without thinking of the two together, may well be the most frightening of judicial delusions...
This, not the madman of legend, was the real and visionary Van Gogh. The notion that his paintings were "mad" is the most idiotic of all impediments to understanding them. It was Van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if "sanity" is to be denned in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis. All the signs of extreme feeling in Van Gogh were tempered by his longing for concision and grace. Those who imagine that he just sat down in cornfields...
...second reaction is less naive and, thankfully, more common. Ironically, to my mind, at least, it is responsible for more deaths. It realizes that no sane individual in the North or South of Ireland believes that it is in Ireland's interest to prostitute herself to the men of the provisional IRA, whose Marxist ideology and links with international terrorism are well known. But nevertheless, it subscribes to the view, especially just after a terrorist attack, that Something Must Be Done. This usually means tinkering about with the constitution, erecting new "forums," adding an "Irish dimension," or initiating what James...