Word: sanely
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...very pleasant," said French Finance Minister René Mayer one day last week, "to cooperate with a man who has as sane ideas as Sir Stafford Cripps." Nonetheless, he was not taking all Sir Stafford's ideas. This week, despite Crippsian objections, the French devalued the franc in a way that, Cripps thought, threatened the pound...
Must a poet be mad? Doctors, many of whom are sane, doubt it. The British Royal College of Physicians, in a clinically solemn discussion of the creative mind, recently came to the conclusion that writers are not as crazy as they like to think they...
...with thick legs, he fell on the floor and writhed with an imagined attack of the disease. On another occasion he had a hallucination that he had seen a baby rise from the sea and clap its hands at him. But Nicolson insists that Shelley was "on the whole" sane: "After all, even Goethe (who assuredly was a man of the most Olympian calm and sanity) once met himself riding along a road on horseback...
...nominate Yehudi Menuhin. This artist has shown by his words and actions such a sane outlook upon the affairs of this world that he puts to shame the managers of our international life. He teaches a lesson that . . . tolerance is a two-way street-that the hand of friendship must be stretched out to all men of good will-and not only to those that you particularly approve...
...Distribute sane literature. In the land of Rabelais, Montaigne, Voltaire, Moliere, Anatole France, Rimbaud, Eluard and Louis Aragon, there can be no support for a propaganda tending to lower the spiritual values...