Word: saneness
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Sprouting out of the New York Times one morning last week was a full-page advertisement that showed a mushroom cloud, huge, horrific, indistinct. WE MUST POSTPONE OUR COMING TESTS, proclaimed the ad's sponsor, an organization called the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy-ACT NOW FOR MAN'S SAKE. The way to do that, said the committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series...
...says about J. Edgar Hoover, who, he points out himself, has been pictured by the Communists and others as running a kind of Gestapo. Few Americans love a cop (unless he is a badlands sheriff), but this book should make clear that the top federal cop is calm, intelligent, sane, and genuinely concerned that the duties of the FBI never be abused...
...machine-gunning the court with her finger and crying: "Tac-tac-tac." She tried to undress on the witness stand and, frantically spinning a bracelet on her wrist, alternately withdrew her charge against the defendant and renewed it. A French doctor assured the court that Witness Bouazza was sane; two other doctors said they would prefer to express no opinion...
...Garmisch-Partenkirchen had been touched up with snow to slow the sleds down to almost sane speeds. But World Champion Bobsledder Eugenio Monti, 30, was in no mood for safety. Only the fact that he had drawn a late starting number for the two-man trials helped him hold on to his hair-trigger temper. Earlier sleds swept the run clean, and Eugenio and his brakeman Renzo Alvera slicked down the one-mile groove in the record-breaking time...
...nature full of repressed sexuality and cankering resentments, and the conviction that what has happened is retribution for sin. Seen as a pathological figure, Margaret is valid and often effective. Moreover, the play highlights how abnormal she is by setting her against a blowzy, easygoing neighbor woman and a sane and knowledgeable neighborhood doctor. Yet, even in Siobhan McKenna's severe, unbending portrayal, Margaret seems something other than a dispassionate psychological study. Playwright Wishengrad has identified her with something in life itself, perhaps with something that gnaws at his own insides. He pushes on toward glib and rather grandiose...