Word: saneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reversed Ground. Groups like Veterans for Peace and SANE preferred a "symbolic confrontation" with the Pentagon to any outright lawbreaking. As a result, an entire issue of the Mob's newspaper, the Mobilizer News, was rewritten and a tub-thumping editorial replaced by a quieter explanation of the march's purpose, written by Co-Chairman Sidney M. Peck, a Cleveland sociologist. Dellinger reversed his ground and urged avoidance of blatant lawbreaking, but at the same time was careful to disown in advance any responsibility for the more vigorous forms of protest. Thus a befuzzed line was drawn between...
Similar feelings had SANE foundering last week on the reefs of radical schism. To protest the move toward militant anti-Americanism- as well as what one official termed Dr. Spock's "ecumenical promiscuity" as cochairman, a post he reluctantly gave up earlier this month-14 of SANE's 45 national directors threatened to resign unless the course was instantly changed...
They charged that SANE -founded ten years ago as the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and virtually devoid of purpose since the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-was schizophrenically split. The chasm existed "between those who support the use of democratic means to bring about change in[U.S. Viet Nam] policy and those who believe the society must be overturned before peace is possible." In their letter of proposed resignation, the dissenters found particularly "intolerable" the fact that Spock served simultaneously as a spokesman for SANE and co-chairman of the National Conference for New Politics, "a group that...
...good plot. Well-done, it could have been another Morgan: hilarious, terribly sad, and needling us with the not-too-trite suggestion that lunatics may be the only sane ones after all. Poorly done, and King of Hearts was poorly done, it leaves only a sense of disappointment, of lost opportunity...
...stay sane, the women tore pieces from the plane's upholstery and used them for pinochle cards. They took turns writing down different kinds of food they wished they had, gifts they would like. On April 30, Carla wrote, "This is my 16th birthday. I hope you are happy, Search and Rescue. You haven't found us yet." Then, her last entry, on May 4th: "Today is a bright and drippy, drippy day. We are completely soaked...