Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Szasz said that the courts should not consider insanity to be a legitimate defense in criminal cases. He said "anyone who is sane enough to commit a crime is sane enough to be punished...
People in the West occasionally hear of the cruel conditions in Soviet labor camps: about prisoners being tortured by hunger and cold, about the denial of medical care to sick prisoners and about forced psychiatric treatment of perfectly sane people in mental hospitals. But very little is known about the frightening fate of political prisoners' families-of their wives and children and aged parents...
...Since no sane person would want finals after Christmas, why in the world are we given this uncommon opportunity? There has got to be some legitimate, valid (notice I did not say logical), or even quasi-acceptable reason for such a policy. But after searching the Freshman Dean's Office, hounding proctors and class officers, even after carefully scrutinizing the graffitti in Cabot Library (the first stall on the ground floor has some terrific stuff), I have discovered not a single plausible argument for Harvard's academic calendar...
...enough viewer interest in a nutty anchorman to boost the ailing network into Nielsen heaven. The news department becomes part of Christenson's entertainment empire, and, as the "mad prophet" of the air waves, Beale gains 60% of the audience and puts the double-whammy on such stolid, sane types as Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor. "Howard Beale is processed instant God," Christenson gushes, "and right now it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore...
...once in a while, Chayefsky abandons the struggle to dramatize his ideas and has somebody, usually Holden, just turn to the camera and spout off. In those moments, his concern - and sometimes his mother wit - comes blazing through and the picture takes on a life not found in safe, sane, well-calculated movies...