Word: saneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would it not be criminally negligent on the part of the Western peoples not to carry out reconnaissance of Russia? And is it logical to feel apologetic about legitimate self-defense? And is it moral to apologize for discharging freely accepted obligations to your friends? And is it even sane to feel guilty about living up to the ideals of the men who founded the American republic, or trying...
...pair seemed to be Topeka's Old Republican Alfred Mossman London and the widow of the man who overwhelmed him in the 1936 presidential election, Old Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt. Landon, 72, and Mrs. Roosevelt, 75, obviously struck responsive chords with each other in their mutual endorsement of a "sane nuclear policy." Neither of them, however, joined a ban-the-bomb march after the rally. That was left to more militant demonstrators, such as Old Socialist Norman Thomas and Union Leader Walter Reuther...
Since 1843 most British and U.S. courts have followed the M'Xaghten Rule: an accused is "sane" (a legal rather than a psychiatric term), and therefore responsible for his criminal acts, unless at the time of the crime he did not know what he was doing or did not know that it was wrong. But since 1954 the law and psychiatry have been wrestling with an attempt by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia to liberalize the definition of "sanity" as a measure of criminal responsibility. Under this court's Durham Rule,* an accused...
...present fervor of Harvard undergraduates. At no time since the Thirties, and certainly not since the collapse of post-war idealism in 1948, has such a wave a political activism swept Cambridge. The sudden appearance, within a few months, of the single issue clubs—LCIC, SANE, 1001(f), and the Capital Punishment Committee—is tending to make obsolete the charge of “student apathy...
Certainly the sit-in picketer who declared that, “This idea has reached its time” was right: Integration as an issue seems to have reached a crisis in recent months. But the time itself is pregnant. With the revival of SANE after a two-year hibernation and the abrupt recognition of a convict named Chessman who has been fighting for his life for 10 years will attest, there had to be a time for these ideas to reach...