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...lawyers, unhappily for him.) And there in court . . . Mr. Joel's sons had their father declared non compos mentis. Those middle-aged lawyer sons were able to achieve this even though a host of Mr. Joel's lifelong friends testified, under oath, either that Mr. Joel Manning was perfectly sane or at least, as one of his oldest and most trusted friends phrased it, 'as sane as he had ever been.' " Taylor has always been able to portray the dignity in his characters, particularly when they are in the act of making fools of themselves. It may be ludicrous...
...Berman observed on Sunday, LaRouche candidates won the Illinois primary partially because the media had ignored them as third-party candidates not worth their attention. Given greater exposure, their pathological fears of homosexuality, Britons, and Henry Kissinger would hardly have endeared them to the sane people of that state...
...forum for the Cardinal's speech, I attempted to push these inconsistencies out of my mind and to listen to what he was saying. He continued his talk by pointing with pride to a couple of pastoral letters recently composed by American Catholic Bishops. One letter proposes a sane nuclear policy by blueprinting a systematic dismantling of nuclear armaments. The other, still in the draft stage, exposes defects in world economies and urges a sharing of wealth among nations as a means of ending poverty. There was, however, one regional pastoral letter which the Cardinal neglected to discuss. This...
...accumulate so much--2,700 pairs of shoes, 3,000 women--if there is no use for all of them? How much gold is enough? Only a sane person would think to ask. An Eskimo hunter who kills only the game necessary to feed his family would have been horrified by Theodore Roosevelt, who could not have consumed more than one ten-thousandth of the animals he slaughtered. Roosevelt loved hunting the way that Imelda loves shopping. He loved the kick of the gun and the smell of the powder. He loved the antlers. The same sportive hormones...
...Whether someone is crazy or sane, people used to be able to rent a room for $20 a week and can no longer do so," Mainzer said. "Not since the Great Depression have the homeless been so evident," she said...