Word: saneness
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...play - with its repeated slamming of bedroom doors - guys bedroom farce, and a very plain, very sane woman secretary points up the looniness of the artistic temperament...
...Germany into many and relatively weak states as in the Bismarckian or pre-Bismarckian days would be a futile attempt to turn back the clock of time. It would cause undying resentment. It probably could never be permanently enforced except by a permanent army of occupations, which no sane person wants...
...probable that Sikorski, a realistic soldier could be swayed to accept the Bug River line, which is ethnologically sound, militarily feasible, and politically sane, together with the friendship of Russia which he has helped create by numerous mutually useful pacts and agreements. The danger is that the power of the ultra-conservative Polish nobility will make Sikorski an inarticulate puppet when the time comes to face Stalin, who feels about Russia's western approaches much the same as Secretary Knox feels about our Pacific approaches, as the keystones of security...
Bell absolves man from blame for the world's dilemmas. After all, he is "a small and unreliable creature . . . erratic, frequently fooled by his five inaccurate senses, largely irrational, unduly emotional, seldom sane." The blame, he holds, lies on the Church, which has grown soft, functions as "a minor decorative art," carries on its work like any big business corporation, supports ministers who warble "minor platitudes . . . [like] twittering birds almost alone in unawareness of the hurricane...
Look Homeward Angels. Close to the contemporary U.S. were two roughly similar books by two totally dissimilar writers - Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' best-selling Cross Creek ($2.50), Essayist E. B. White's sane and salty One Man's Meat ($2.50). Ludwig Bemelmans, a first-rate light storyteller with a surpassing light style, criticized human foibles with a sweet smile in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You ($2.50). But it remained for Humorist James Thurber, reporting on A.D. 1942!s general state of affairs in My World - And Welcome...