Word: saneness
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...then, is sane? Who is crazy? Who cares? Pirandello's paradoxes are too thin-and at this late date too familiar-to sustain the weight of words he thought were required to explain them. Bemused by abstractions, he neglected to write characters who have life and interest in their own right...
...people looking for shelter" are kept out of the community, in favor of "normal people looking for something significant to do with themselves." The normal people have also decided that the "mentally ill" have no place in Twin Oaks--they would, presumably, sully the healthy atmosphere of the "sane society...
Similarly, we can cut spending for mental-health clinics, grammar school milk programs and family assistance on the ground that America already has enough sane people, children without rickets, and families who are not slavishly impoverished. Of course, weapons research must be further funded, because you just cannot have enough ways to kill people...
Roswitha M. Winsor and William R. Rollins, co-chairmen of the Committee for Sane Drug Policy (CSDP), a group that is supporting the present efforts for marijuana reform, were both skeptical of the bills' chances for approval...
...Sunlight Dialogues evolves from the return of a once-prominent local lawyer to Batavia; self-exiled because of personal and financial disasters. No longer quite sane, Taggart Hodge assumes the pseudonym of the "Sunlight Man," a mystic, magician and aspiring philosopher king. Much of the story takes the shape of a thriller, replete with jail-break, murder, appearances and disappearances. But Medievalist Gardner doesn't stop here. The secretive dialogues of Hodge, an elusive and outspoken anarchist, with Batavia's strict law-and-order police chief (hence the title) are strangely reminiscent of Grendel's talks with Unferth in Grendel...