Word: saneness
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...himself in a British jail. Hess was sent to Spandau after being convicted of war crimes at Nürnberg, and over the years rumors of madness cropped up again, fed by his refusal to see visitors. His lawyer, whom he finally summoned last week, said that Hess is sane. He wanted to make his will and be assured that his wife and son have adequate means...
...There's a lot of insanity in loneliness," he confides. "I've got to get sane again. If you mop your wounds, it takes away from the depth of your playing." His music finds a far more receptive audience today than it did five years ago. In fact, the quiet revolution growing within the jazz world points directly down the path blazed by Ornette Coleman. "I think," he says, "I can see some sunlight coming...
...tongue out of a snake. Under Tartuffe's spell, Orgon permits the disruption of his household, disinherits his son, signs away all his property, affiances his daughter to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife (Salome Jens) into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery. This is madness, as the superbly sane Molière knew. And like an enchanted healer from some pre-psychoanalytic age, Molière devotes his play to making Orgon grow up to the age of reason...
...once said, "In this century, more people have died for their witness for Christ than died in the early centuries, which we think of as the days of martyrs." They will be in the Congo for more mundane reasons. But if there is ever to be a normal, sane relationship between Black Africa and the white world, they will have to be there, and they will have to be accepted. For so life goes...
...virtually all other black African nations, including the more advanced and moderate ones, supported the rebels without even a hint of condemnation for their bestialities. Virtually all these nations echoed the cynical Communist line in denouncing the parachute rescue as "imperialist aggression." When this happened, the sane part of the world could only wonder whether Black Africa can be taken seriously at all, or whether, for the foreseeable future, it is beyond the reach of reason...