Word: saneness
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...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...
AFTER nearly 40 years of heated discussion, the motion picture industry has devised what it considers a sane system of limited movie censorship. Beginning November 1, seven people (including a female child psychologist) will give one of four ratings to every movie released in this country: "G" (suitable for general audiences), "M" (mature audiences), "R" (restricted--persons under 16 admitted only with parent or guardan), or "X" (persons under 16 not admitted). Most theatre owners are expected to enforce the ratings at the box office...
...writing its characteristic texture. His crisp craftsmanship seems to come from the English satirical tradition, but beneath this veneer the American grain runs deep: he knows his way intimately around the moral and physical landscape of the U.S. middle class. Sheed relishes the ridiculous but champions the sane and normal. His protagonists are ordinary guys desperately trying to fend off the world's idiocies and evils long enough to define themselves and do the decent thing. They rarely succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward...