Word: saneness
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...delighted that TIME has not lost its sense of humor. The "tongue-in-cheek" way that TIME presents some of the problems of the world makes it more possible for one to consider them sanely; for, unlike most newspapers, TIME never becomes hysterical over any situation, no matter of what grave portent. If one accepts a crisis by looking for whatever humor that crisis may contain, one is surely more apt to reach a sensible, sane and logical conclusion...
...your Oct. 7 issue I notice along with sane reporting on the Foreign News front a short article about "Lower Slobbovia" of comic-strip fame. Don't you think TIME is going a little too far by including such trash within its renowned covers? I, an ardent reader, most definitely do. Comic strips have meant to me and many other thinking people nothing more than a beautiful example of America's love of escapist reading. I hope TIME too is not becoming slightly escapist...
...drinks because he desires, intends, wills to experience the effects of drink. . . . Conceding that men do not deliberately intend to become chronic alcoholics, what shall be said of a man who, knowing the ultimate results, seeks the accumulative effects which liquor produces? If a sane man chooses to loose destructive forces upon himself, the law will not relieve him from his folly...
Eddie Cantor went to Denver to award the city a handsome plaque for the safe-&-sane state of its street traffic, was dined by the mayor at the country club. Out to the club to police the dinner went all the cops in the business district, and Denver suffered its worst traffic tie-up in history...
Warren stumped on his record. Said he: "I have been unable to draw from my opponent anything that could be considered an indictment of my administration." He was right. His safe & sane record left Kenny and P.A.C. little to snipe at. He had occasionally appointed able Democrats to state office. He had cut taxes, at the same time extended unemployment compensation, and proposed state medical insurance. He had got higher old age pensions-always a popular issue in California-passed by the Legislature...