Word: saneness
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...keys--I always sit on the left to see his hands--and, unbelievable as it seems, simply sat there without motion or sound. Well, the audience regressed from expectation to uneasiness; then, in crescendo of frustration, through irritation--it was hot, the air fairly visible--rumor (Is he stricken? Sane? Obstinat?) anger, shouting, disgust, and finally mass departure. What is music coming to...?" Only to renewal. The pianist, by refusing to "play," gave rhetorical expression to one of the dramatic esthetics of musical avant-garde composer John Cage. Our matronly subscriber almost certainly goes to ten concerts, sits...
...extremists want that? Some do. In their view, it would ripen the U.S. for revolution. And yet the university is one of the best possible bases from which sane radicals can expect to mount sizable political support in the U.S. Only the campus is ideally equipped to analyze or attack poverty and pollution, to appeal to the ghetto as well as suburbia. How it should so use those skills is an open question, but if radicals seriously hope to change society, destroying universities is sheer lunacy. The trouble is, of course, that their goal is less reform than romance?coming...
...hospitals, and some courts permit more elastic definitions-such as the Durham rule.* If a man is deemed insane under any legal definition, he is not responsible for his criminal act at the time he committed it and therefore cannot be blamed for it. Says U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist John Suarez, "sane or insane is equivalent to guilty or not guilty." While psychiatrists are equipped to give an opinion of a man's mental state, they bridle at being asked to say whether a man should be blamed for a specific act, since this goes well beyond the frontiers of their...
...sick they cannot distinguish between a mere film and reality," he assured me. Still worried, I hung around outside the theater that night. Finally, the people emerged-laughing and giggling as though they had seen a comedy. The old gent was right: his sick ones were too sane to be fooled by Hollywood's make-believe...
...chauvinism of the American mind. Indeed, an intense facing up to facts about this continent and its history is far more instructive, especially about the future of our world, than a facing backward to Europe, still a center of ferment and ideas, but no longer the depository of sane leadership...