Word: saneness
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...quite certain why careening through turns and careering down heart-stopping hills hold such a strong attraction for otherwise sane human beings. Some psychologists have suggested that riding a roller coaster is a form of rebellion against smother love and all its safety, a final plunge to freedom from childhood dependency. Others theorize latent death wishes or the need to act out and exorcise fears. For some, the motivation is simpler. Two years after he crossed the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh took a spin on the Coney Island Cyclone, one of the oldest roller coasters still in operation (it is celebrating...
...astonishingly versatile English director Frank Dunlop has maintained an admirably sane balance between the ironic lightness of Chekhov's comedy and the Stygian strain of his pathos. For the subtlest of comic relief, Dunlop could not have wished for anything better than that provided by Barnard Hughes as a compassionate, sodden and cheerily nihilistic regimental doctor. In serving Chekhov with unswerving fidelity, BAM adds another medal of honor to its growing collection...
Owners have publicly declared that they were losing money with the former reserve clause and will now be ruined without it. But would any sane businessman have purchased either of the two expansion franchises last year for $10 million each if they were certain financial losers? A baseball team can be used as a tax shelter for rich men like McDonald's owner Ray Kroc or Seagram's magnate Charles Bronfman, but shrewd businessmen do not generally invest in predictably unprofitable enterprises...
Cool and Competent. Sane Backe is. He also is cool and competent, traits going back at least to his days as a Strategic Air Command pilot in the 1950s (he still flies around on weekends in his private Cessna). After receiving his M.B.A. from Cincinnati's Xavier University, he worked for General Electric. In 1966 he joined Silver Burdett Co., the publishing arm of General Learning Corp. (then owned jointly by GE and Time Inc.); General Learning was set up to explore new teaching techniques. Two years later Backe was running Silver Burdett, then he became chief executive...
Also, it seems to me that they must have at least some people in their power structure who are aware of the fact that the risk of nuclear war, rather than decreasing between two sane powers, is increasing just because the technology is destabilizing. [When one side develops a weapons system not covered by an arms agreement, the other side feels compelled to develop...