Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imagination-defying portrait of a monster, a man who approached killing and torture with the zeal of an efficiency expert and counted corpses with the cool dedication of a trained bookkeeper. It was his special form of insanity-widespread in Nazi Germany-that he regarded himself as a sane, ordinary man with an ordinary but difficult job to perform, and he secretly craved recognition for the efficiency with which he carried it out under unteutonically chaotic conditions...
Among laymen, the arguments tend to be utilitarian. Psychology is nibbling at the fringes of the law to raise the question of whether any murderer can be classified as sane. But most debate turns on the question of whether capital punishment has a deterrent effect on crime. Many defenders of capital punishment tend to agree with James Pike, Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, that "the possibility of deterrence provides the only viable, moral justification" for the death penalty...
...Trip. Outsiders can seldom make sense of Indonesian politics, but last week Indonesians as well as outsiders were in confusion. Why, they asked, did the three pilots flying with Mauker not try to shoot him down? Was Lieut. Mauker sane and a conspirator, or was he out of his mind? Sukarno appeared to take the assassination attempt in stride, just as he had the last one in 1957, when five grenades were hurled at him, killing ten bystanders but leaving the President unscathed...
...chapter or so at a time, the writing wars with itself. The reader may wonder whether the author really means what his narrator says. The newspaperman's powerful, simultaneous attraction and revulsion toward sex has left him torn by disillusion. But his humor betrays him; it is sane and healthy. The grin may be twisted, but the mind is not, and it is hard to believe that once the fellow gets his divorce and has a few drinks to steady himself, he will still be able to see the Devil's jigging hoofs instead of the barmaid...
Camus's effort to hold a monster up to nature and draw a sane moral from a mad career produces a startlingly simple...