Word: saneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of the emphasis on protest rather than policy, the marchers lacked the clear thinking and directed proposals of Goldmark's Project Washington. In 1962, although Tocsin had a very fragile coalition of allies (the Student Peace Union, Student SANE, the American Friends Service Committee, and SDS), it managed to produce a sharply focused set of policy proposals...
Morality has an important place in politics. It is not, however, easy to say what that place is. Johnson, too, wants the war to end, incredible as that may sound to many Cantabrigians. Nor is he any less sane or more sane than those who want the U.S. to get out. But Johnson, like De Gaulle, like Churchill, like Machiavelli, proceeds on different assumptions about what peace and morality require. Hopefully the marchers, when they reach the White House, in that spirit of togetherness and certainty that every march inspires, will not be too contemptuous of the man inside...
...husband's chronic infidelities, looks long at herself and is repelled by what she sees: something between a nanny and a Girl Guide. She takes on a new face, a new wardrobe, a lover ("Why not have fun?"), and learns to fight for her real life "like a sane animal that wants to survive." Her husband, she realizes, had wanted her merely as a mother; her lover, she feels, is making an honest woman...
...Tories joined in passing Duffy's indiscretion to Parliament's Committee of Privileges, no doubt mindful of George Bernard Shaw, who observed 50 years ago in Major Barbara that it is, after all, whisky that "enables Parliament to do things at 11 at night that no sane person would do at 11 in the morning...
...bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque. "Worse'n a real prison," says Annie, after casing the place and discovering that patients, as another strip character puts it, "as sane as anybody but labeled crazy are stuck here in this snake pit with no chance o' gettin...