Word: saneness
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...even with all our differences, music still affects us in the same way. We need it to survive. In the kitchen, it keeps us sane, a rhythm in the dishroom. The students need it to fulfill their creative desires; Mahler is an essential part of their diet. Tanglewood has been infiltrated by classic rock lovers, but it’s all in the name of loving music...
...hard to generalize about the protesters. Some are pacific, some are violent; some are coherent and sane, speaking for many of us in an uneasy intuition that something at the heart of global capitalism is amiss - not entirely because of the disparities between rich and poor, (most boats might presumably be lifted by an impartially rising tide), but more because they see the spiritual and environmental damage - the things that the tide permanently destroys, regardless. It wasn't the Indians, after all, who wiped out the buffalo...
...heard about crazy airlines. Like those that keep you on a plane for eight hours - on the ground. Or others that charge seemingly insane prices for 500-mile puddle-jumps. And almost every carrier continues to tell passengers the plane will take off on time - we all know how sane that is. But no airline, its seems, is as loony as JetBlue Airways...
...party that is the political face of one of the bloodiest terrorist groups Europe has known can consistently attract around 15% of the vote in regional elections. A masterful new book by Irish journalist Paddy Woodworth helps to explain this conundrum, why it is that so many presumably sane electors in the northern Basque region have kept putting their X next to the candidates of the extreme nationalist party Euskal Herritarrok or its predecessor Herri Batasuna...
...didn't torment me. If I had killed women and children, I would imagine that would haunt me. In the brutality of combat, life is cheap. Then you come back to the civilian world, where life is precious. It's surreal. The only thing that kept me sane was reading Catch...