Word: saneness
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...need for a partner has always been the bane of chess players. While in forced isolation in the gulag, Natan Sharansky played chess against himself in his head. It kept him sane. (It had the added benefit, he likes to note, of providing him with a lift. "I always won," he recalls cheerfully.) And Bobby Fischer has been playing chess with few people other than himself ever since he quit as world champion and practically disappeared 25 years ago. But then, Fischer has the look of a paranoid schizophrenic...
...housewife with two small sons living in a small house in rural western Maryland, when a blizzard dropped 3 ft. of snow outside the door. "Here I was," she says, "pretty much stuck in the house for several days playing Candy Land and rearranging the furniture. To keep sane, I decided to do something else...
...puts it, are not very girly: guns, the Godfather movies and goth culture. Yet in reviewing Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, she was surprised by the strong reactions the book provokes, which range from worshipful to wary. "The book's strength is basically how sane it is," says Vowell, who adds, however, that reading the 884-page manual had her "completely, overly aware of the state of my bathroom." Vowell comes to a commonsensical compromise: "I like sad stories and tough topics, but I want my living quarters to show some sense of joy." Vowell...
...Being sane and homeless is worse than being insane and homeless," he says. "When they are insane, people make excuses for them...
...Thus, when Maasdorp arrived at Harvard his new American acquaintances were surprised to learn that canings are still carried out by the sane. "People were very surprised that corporal punishment still existed," Maasdorp said. "They certainly seemed to think it was barbaric. They expected me to be shocked about...