Word: saneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sane men endure such a thankless job as officiating? It is not the money, they say, but the thrill of being in the game. Says N.F.L. Referee Bernie Ulman, a sporting-goods salesman who, like many pro officials, is a former college-football player: "It's the one good way of staying with football after you're too old to play...
...French, of course, have a long tradition of an older woman initiating a young man in the felicities of sex. Transferred to a U.S. setting, Forty Carats acquires a sociological tinge. The play enters a sane and plausible plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage. If it is acceptable for an older man to marry a young girl, then it ought to be equally acceptable for an older woman to marry a young man. Love is a game for all seasons...
...from Richard Speck, who was convicted last year of stabbing and strangling eight nurses to death in a Chicago dormitory, the Illinois Supreme Court denied that Speck's death sentence is cruel and unusual punishment. It also rebuffed his attorneys' efforts to prove that Speck was not sane at the time of the murders and that opponents of the death penalty had been rejected as jurors when the jury was picked for his trial...
...thief at 13, a rapist at 15, to think of these lives and the enormity of your decision, how the words from your mouth mean a whole existence for another person. In these cases, the cases that face Adlow every day of the week, the only sane thing to do is to trust in the knowledge of your eyes...
Untimely circumstances aside, there was another good reason for the mildness of the affair. A primary issue Kennedy, McCarthy, and McGovern had raised--whether sane, attractive men would run the federal show--had been settled for the time being. Fifteen minutes of Gene was no longer Heaven--especially since it followed interminable harangues by the likes of Richard Goodwin, Shirley MacLaine, and Michael Schwartz. Paul O'Dwyer's charming brogue and John Gilligan's verbal restraint were a bit more encouraging, though the feeling lurked that both were probable losers come November...