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...Harriet, a sometime editor and technician in the London planetarium who has now written a first novel at 31, suffers in comparison, not only with Father but with precocious Brother Auberon, 35, who turned out The Foxglove Saga 15 years ago. Evelyn satirized his peers and times by following sane characters through a giddy world. Harriet uses the much less engaging converse: crazy people, sane society. The father's unremittingly inhospitable view of humanity lent his books bite and pace. The daughter, so far at least, clearly shares his disdain for British foible, but cannot sustain it; when...
Oakland's power slugging of Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Sal Bando, Billy Williams and Gene Tenace spreads fear in any sane pitcher, and the A's lose nothing in defense...
...cameras dead, and the men were sipping Scotches. Ford was puffing his pipe and musing about the people who were going after him. Ford was handicapping each of the key men who would oppose him, determined to press his case in a democratic manner. It is such a sane and decent approach that it has already confounded a sizable segment of the opposition...
...breaking a national rail strike. At week's end, a crowd of government employees in New Delhi initially refused to express formal grief at the news of Mishra's death. Only after the main speaker, Jayaprakash Narayan himself, remonstrated with the group and declared that "no sane person can tolerate" such acts of terrorism did the audience reluctantly support the traditional resolution of condolence...
Additional facts led further into fantasy. What jury would believe, for example, that the runtish Manson, who had spent half his life in reformatories and prisons, had gamed iron control over a youthful "family" of some 60 members? Would any sane person credit Bugliosi's explanation of Manson's motive for the killings: to incite "helter skelter" - an Armageddon between blacks and whites that would eventually make Manson the leader of the world...