Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overriding reason for having American reporters in Havana is that during the last Cuba crisis they provided the only sane assessment of Castro's popularity and strength to reach the United States. Today, when senate "experts" on Cuba are asking Americans to believe that all Cubans would welcome a U.S. army of liberation, a third voice in the Cuba debate is more important than ever. It is necessary to know what political and emotional climate actually exists in Cuba before we decide what we propose to do about...
...control of this jabberwock of a book, but since Catch-22 is a wild war satire, it does not much matter that the book tramples what scenery it does not chew. The novel's hero is Yossarian, an Air Force captain whose maladjustment is that he is sane. He is stationed in Italy and has flown 40 or 50 missions, and he tries to explain to a friend what troubles him about this: "They're trying to kill me." No one is trying to kill you, the friend says. "Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asks...
...Could it be," he asks in his book, The Sane Society, "that the middle-class life of prosperity, while satisfying our material needs, leaves us with a feeling of intense boredom . . . that modern civilization fails to satisfy profound needs in man?" Capitalistic society, Fromm charges, has turned men into robots who have sur rendered their freedom to machines. They suffer, he writes, from a "receptive orientation in which the aim is to receive, to 'drink in,' to have something new all the time, to live with a continuously open mouth, as it were." They can be saved only...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. Whether or not Weiner intended some symbolic use for that name, he has drawn a wooden and immobile character. Woody's personality seems to be a function of his political beliefs: active member of SANE, NAACP-good guy. But later, no time for SANE, fires a Negro employee...
...Sane but Psychotic. Was Hess mad? Was his mission an insane gamble? Author Leaser thinks not. He does not gloss over any of Hess's strange behavior (Hess once had magnets fixed around his bed to draw harmful influences from his body). But like the panel of psychiatrists who found Hess "psychotic but sane'' before the Nürnberg trials (where Hess got a life sentence as a Nazi war criminal). Leasor sees Hess as an unbalanced man obsessed by a childish-and thoroughly Germanic -dream of performing one great convulsive act of patriotism...