Word: sane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COLLECTORS ARE CRAZY, A LITTLE or a lot -- gently mad or glittery-eyed gaga. Nuttiness is the only sane explanation for wanting to possess every matchbook cover or baseball card ever printed or for paying $47 million to own a Van Gogh. Or trying to collect every fact in the space-time continuum by memorizing an encyclopedia or deciding to experience one of every kind of lover...
...Sexton's psychiatrist had suggested she write poetry in addition to her therapy, she took to her task completely, making writing her number one priority. Gray Sexton details the workshops, classes and rewrites in which her mother engaged. To her credit, the author is as concerned with presenting the sane and gifted side of her mother as she is in presenting her darker side. The reader is told of her mother's meteoric rise on the poetry scene, her numerous honorary doctorates, her nine volumes of work, her rock band and, of course, her 1967 Pulitzer Prize for her book...
...times you get out of classes and you're totally stressed out," Martin said. "Going down to the track and doing something that has nothing to do with books and professors makes you feel so much better about life. It allows me to remain sane...
...know, I know. You think I have lost it. You think I have been eating too much Harvard Dinning Services food. Well, let me tell you that I am at least as sane as my schizophrenic fellow editor Downtown Eric Brown Knows is any day of the week. And, don't worry, I'm not a Chiefs fan either...
...Adams: I don't remember Nelson Mandela renouncing violence or Arafat genuflecting. It's a two-way process to bring about a demilitarization, to get those involved in armed action to stop. No sane person wants to be engaged in violence. But to put preconditions on people prematurely only makes the situation more problematic. Sinn Fein doesn't advocate violence. We don't advocate armed struggle. We have suffered from the violence. I want to see an unarmed strategy. I want to see a situation where the I.R.A. ceases activities. But the people who are looking down their guns...