Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house at Hoxton." But confronted with the hard-and-fast alternatives of taking care of Mary or committing her to an institution, Charles never hesitated. Until death parted them, brother and sister lived together like an old devoted married pair. During the long periods when Mary was sane, brother and sister wrote together (Tales from Shakespeare), and wined and dined almost every great literary figure of the day. When Mary showed signs of a fresh mad fit, they set off resolutely to the asylum together, walking arm in arm, weeping, and carrying Mary's straitjacket...
...bones of most of the people in the world to the extent of 15 per cent of the maximum permissible dose. Dr. Lapp pleads for criticism of his conclusions and I am sure we all hope that he is mistaken. If he is right, there is no sane choice but to stop the testing of large atomic weapons immediately. Strontium 90 is no joke--if the tests are continued much longer it could cause many millions to die of bone cancer...
...effect Helen has on them is generally deadly. She drove Brett Chapman, millionaire ' rancher, to exile in South America. Dwight Swanson, oilman, piloted his plane into a crash and died. Kelcey Spencer, motion-picture tycoon, went off a cliff to his death. But Dick Waring, a madman, was sane only with Helen...
Pilots of sound mind normally give tornadoes plenty of airspace. The tall clouds that spawn twisters are boiling with turbulence, and the black funnels themselves can tear an airplane to shreds. Pilot James M. Cook, 6 ft. 3 in. and slow-spoken, is thoroughly sane, but whenever a threatening cloud shows its face in the Middle West, he hops into his war-surplus Mustang at Kansas City and takes the cloud's pulse and temperature, even if it is crawling with vicious twisters...
Freud followed throughout his life the path of radical criticism of stereotypes. Seeking to follow in this tradition, two recent studies, Erish Fromm's The Sane Society and Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization, attempt to apply Freud's insights to our current culture. Both authors, who violently disagree with one another, agree at least in condemming the "manipulative" or "repressive" life we force ourselves into. Stanley Hyman, in the Spring issue of Partisan Review, declares that Freud again made an understanding of the tragic side of human life possible. Hyman also criticizes what he believes to be a current...