Word: sane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Radioactive Leaks. Specifically, the committee and its seven co-plaintiffs (including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and SANE) claim that the blast may trigger "a succession of earthquakes" (fault lines run from Alaska through Southern California), tsunamis or earthquake-produced tidal waves of "unpredictable size and direction," contaminate the surrounding ocean with radioactive materials and leak poisonous debris into the atmosphere...
...promises of unmuzzled creative vision. The films of Arthur Penn. Sam Peckinpah and Stanley Kubrick honestly reflected surrounding chaos. Even if The Wild Bunch, 2001 or Little Big Man finally emphasized-through the criticism of portrayed societies-viable standards of intelligence and honor by which man could construct a sane world, they were at base level iconoclastic, determined to shatter set cultural conventions and destroy them utterly...
...fight for equality is more understandable than some of his charges. His depiction of 'white power' a 'a marsh underfoot for anyone not white . . . treacherous and deadly' is, of course, wildly exaggerated," Time concluded its article with a forceful defense of King. "King's compromises were not capitulation, but sane and sound recognition of the way progress historically has been wrung from the American system...
...hear the notion disputed. Some blacks, in fact, are so proud of the high black birth rate that they attack Z.P.G. as a white scheme to curb black power. Now comes a more surprising attack, this one from Jewish intellectuals, most of whom had endorsed birth control as a sane way to ease world hunger and poverty...
...latest packet is a report on an SDS demonstration in West Philadelphia in April 1968. The report states that "there were no incidents during the course of this demonstration," but lists the names of eight demonstrators and their affiliations with such groups as SDS and the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy...