Word: saneness
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...comic pitch even at its most tense and powerful moments. Billy turns his sense of betrayal and anger into a catalyst for self-knowledge as he incessantly jokes about his illness throughout the play. But this comic element underscores the paradox that the play adresses: the "insane" are more sane than the "sane." As Teddy jokes to Irene at one point, "He's insane, you know, which is advantageous...because it's curable, while sanity...
...Agunot. Alice Shalvi, chairwoman of the Israel Women's Network, wants to strengthen the civil courts by giving them the power to threaten husbands with financial penalties and even arrest them if they refuse to release their wives from broken marriages. In Israel's volatile political climate, that seemingly sane proposal stands little chance of success...
...occurs, Bush's skills will be tested further in the weeks and months ahead. Keeping the nation solidly behind him will become harder if a stalemate ensues and oil prices continue their upward spiral despite Saudi promises to increase production. Bush could insulate himself by finally pressing for a sane energy policy, but he shows no signs of even contemplating...
...something more than fame and fortune." So these days Fulghum (pronounced Full-jum) tends to write a lot of checks to charities. Then again, he was always devoted to good works. "I never stopped supporting the efforts of those devoted to world peace, like the Quakers, or SANE, or Greenpeace, or the NAACP. Only now I have more to donate...
...story, based on an actual incident, takes on deep resonances in Guare's fiction. It becomes a metaphor for liberals' fantasies of rescuing the poor. It confronts the ambivalence that the sane feel toward the mentally ill: when the con man, deftly played by James McDaniel, seems to reveal a pathological belief in his own fantasies, the wife, played by the ever splendid Stockard Channing, vacillates between compassion and revulsion. And the encounter devastatingly sketches the uneasy state of U.S. race relations, in which white liberals may endorse the black cause in theory, yet not know any blacks socially...