Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David and Lisa. Love is a light to the sick as well as the sane, and in this painful and beautiful film it lights the lives of two psychotic children and gives them hope that somehow they may be healed...
David and Lisa. Love is a light to the sick as well as the sane, and in this painful and beautiful film it lights the life of two psychotic children and gives them hope that somehow they may be healed...
Thus described, Pynchon's book sounds like a Jack Kerouac eruption. It is not. The prose is quiet, sane and assured, even when it is describing something like the invention (by someone Benny meets at a party) of a coin-operated whorehouse for bus and railway stations...
...scene is, by comparison, that of a namby-pamby nitwit. To the great credit of Mr. Arunah Brady be it said that he was able to convey much of its pity and terror. This scene has everything. She is not mad; on the contrary, she is the one person sane. Seeress, she can see the crimes already wreaked under that roof, and foresee the two about to follow, the murder of Agamemnon and of herself. Her speeches begin with little more than unintelligible bird-like cries of mantic possession, but gradually clarify to explicit prophecy, yet all opaque...
...Schlesinger notes, however, there is an overall theme: much of contemporary left-wing dissent does find its origins in the fear that America and the entire world is not confronting "the implications of nuclear war." Men like Hughes, Riesman, and Roger Hagan, periodicals like The Nation, organizations like SANE and the Women's Strike for Peace, are all pre-eminently concerned with awakening a slumbering public to the evils of the Cold War and the Arms Race, and mobilizing them against the unseen, unnamed enemy...