Word: saneness
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...officers scrambled to hire more assistantsand began to plan a rally in Washington D.C. forApril 17, 1965. The march brought together across-section of the New Left, with groups fromthe National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policyto the Young People's Socialist League clamoringto join...
...purpose, she made one of the quiet but definitive remarks at which she excelled. Spender had asked her what she regarded as her biggest achievement. "Well," she said without hesitation, "I think that my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that...
...civilized woman (John Kennedy was about half-civilized). Her civilized quality derived in large part from her insistence that her life belonged to her and her children. It is hard enough for a celebrity to be sane; fame is a distorting, corrupting and even psychotic environment. People in a healthy community gossip about people they know. It must disturb something in human nature to gossip so addictedly about people one doesn't know -- all of those brightly painted, artificial familiars...
Jacqueline Onassis was clearly a sane woman. She kept a seemly silence. And for all the fragility she may have suggested in the big, round sunglasses and the head scarf, she wore some inner armoring; she possessed an eerie talent (a strategy of self-protection well known to those who handle dangerous animals) to make herself disappear, to dematerialize. If you saw her on the street, she would seem to abstract herself out of public attention, a kind of elegant vanishing. She would be, as she finally is now . . . elsewhere...
...dream. The reality of reality always wins in the end. Franklin Roosevelt, possibly the greatest illusionist and spin master in presidential history (better even than Ronald Reagan), never lost sight of the reality of the reality of the world, which he kept in the foreground of his generous, sane mind...