Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are, of course, extreme examples. But this interdependence easily fosters such unhappy incidents, and a constant vigil on the part of both school authorities and the intelligent portion of the parental community is necessary to keep public education on a sane and salutary keel. Parents in Syosset, New York, an idyllic little community on Long Island, discovered that the glee club director of one school was teaching his singers patriotic songs of the United States, England, France, and Russia--the last a song written nine years before by a Soviet composer. They accused him of being unpatrioic...
Congratulations to those readers who opposed the supporters of the Sane Nuclear Policy declaration [May 5]. As an escapee from Czechoslovakia, I was shocked to learn about people who are against nuclear tests; possibly these people prefer Soviet slavery? In an atomic war, one has the chance of victory-which, no doubt, will be yours-but if the Communists win, nobody will be able to escape to a free country any more. What would be left then? Suicide...
What's Sane...
...soldiers. Her traumatic reaction is to become indiscriminately promiscuous. Cesira, in turn, is reduced to robbing one of her daughter's slain paramours. At novel's end, only the profound Latin conviction that the first duty of life is to go on living keeps the two women sane as they travel the long road back to Rome...
Supporters of the Sane Nuclear Policy declaration [calling for cessation of tests-April 21] could next be expected to suggest shooting mothers to keep down the birth rate...