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...strange that General Grigorenko [June 4] was considered insane by Soviet psychiatrists? Every society sets its own standards for "normalcy," and anyone who deviates is sick. It happens in the U.S. all the time, and no one is alarmed. In Iran, the Ayatullah Khomeini is presently quite sane as he orders political murder in the name of justice. Sanity is relative...
...likelier explanation may be the tyranny of fashion. This theory gains support from the latest development on the party front, which is the replacement of weak wine with water. All over the East Coast this summer, and perhaps even in less benighted regions for all I know, ostensibly sane people are turning up at parties and ordering water. What is even more curious, they ask for imported water. American water isn't good enough for them...
...days before 100,000 soldiers could be conscripted. This state of affairs would result in dire consequences for our nation's security. Registration in itself does not impose great liabilities on registered individuals--yet it adds greatly to our country's national defence and deterence capabilities. It is a sane move for the country which should be immediately adopted...
Even mainline practitioners are uncertain that psychiatry can tell the insane from the sane. In one experiment, Stanford's D.L. Rosenhan planted eight sane volunteers, one of them a psychiatrist, in public and private psychiatric wards scattered across the country and told them to behave normally. Many inmates quickly realized that the eight impostors were sane because the would-be patients kept taking notes. But the staff psychiatrists never did. Says Rosenhan: "Any diagnostic process that lends itself so readily to massive errors of this sort cannot be a very reliable...
...would otherwise sane people want to take on this responsibility? "When you're down here, it's hard to motivate yourself to get out of here," Hofer says. "There's no coach to tell you what to do, when to train. You've got to do it because you have a sense of what you need, but it's not as easy as just going down to the field house every afternoon. But when you get to these carnivals, suddenly it's all gone. Suddenly you're really relaxed and all you have to think about is skiing and being...