Word: saneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meetings, which blend organ preludes and thoughtful moral lectures on issues of the day. Most of them have a practical knowledge of what they speak. Jerome Nathanson, chairman of the Fraternity of Leaders, heads the New York Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment. Another leader, Algernon Black, is active in SANE and the Euthanasia Society of America...
...late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school in a chain gang. He was an idealist, your Dad was." Most of the sane characters in Morgan! are a little daft as well, the better to plug the movie's thesis that mental health nowadays may be a mixed blessing...
Perhaps there are certain ages which do not need truth as much as they need a deepening of the sense of reality, a widening of the imagination. I, for one, do not doubt that the sane view of the world is the true one. But is that what is always wanted, truth? The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite...
CONSERVATION. To ensure Americans "a sane environment," the President presented to Congress the most exhaustive conservation blueprint ever devised. He requested an initial $10 million for a new Redwood National Park in California, plus funds for additional parks, seashores and hiking trails...
...deny so derisively the right of the Senate and the good American people to question our role in the Viet Nam war? What you do to Senator Fulbright is an atrocity. Senators Fulbright, Church, Gore and Morse appeal to a lot of us as sane, sober thinkers...