Word: saneness
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Caution, however, did not prevent him from wondering aloud how any of the state's legislators "got out of seventh grade" and "how a state which gave 87.2 per cent of its vote to Goldwater could claim to be sane...
Thanks to Playwright Wallach's quip hand, nimble direction by James Hammerstein, and faultless comic timing by a superior cast, Cello breezes along even when it is replaying the same joke. But the plot is strangely unknowing in its pivotal notion. No sane corporation would think of stamping a scientist of stature into a cog-sized mold. And nowadays scientists do not "sell out"-they buy in, by forming their own companies and voting themselves stock options...
...Republican Convention in San Francisco, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, then running for the G.O.P. presidential nomination himself, asked: "What does it mean to be a conservative? Does it mean you must be a trigger-happy dreamer in a world that wants from America not slogans but sane leadership?" Again, Scranton said of Goldwater: "He says the decision to unleash nuclear war should be made not by the President but by the commanders in the field...
...only time a European driver behaves is when he visits a neighboring country. Then he is likely to be sane and slow. Naturally. He is scared of all those crazy foreign drivers...
Says Patrick Moriarty, president of the Atlas Fire Works Co. of Lynwood, Calif.: "The trend is toward putting fireworks back into the hands of the people. The sales of these safe and sane items are going so fast we just can't keep up. In five to ten years, they'll be legal all through the country...