Word: saneness
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...boisterous, happiest when surrounded by cronies in the hotel bar; the gentleman writer is quiet, refined, more comfortable at afternoon tea. But careering around the island, chasing slender threads of news, they seem a matched pair. "It's like having a third eye," Thompson says. "He's sane and has a crazy sense of humor...
...York last month . . . I gave an interview to a representative of the London Sunday Times, who imputed to me opinions which I have never held, and statements which no sober man would make and, it seems to me, no sane man believe. That statement that I or anyone else in his right mind would choose any one state against the whole remaining Union of States, down to the ultimate price of shooting other human beings in the streets, is not only foolish but dangerous. . . . The idea can further inflame those people who might still believe such a situation possible...
...lunacy. He was a perfect phenomenon of the age of Einstein, in which seemingly infinitesimal causes can produce spectacular effects: cataclysms. Hitler was an atom, a nonentity convinced he could conquer the world. But the very madness of Hitler's enterprise made war, from the Allied perspective, seem sane and necessary. If ever there was a war that should be fought, it was that one, against such evil. But war always has its reasons, its internal logic. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was despicably aggressive to most Americans but made abundant sense to the Japanese general staff...
...control of this Jabberwock of a book, but since Catch-22 is a wild war satire, it does not much matter that the book tramples what scenery it does not chew. The novel's hero is Yossarian, an Air Force captain whose maladjustment is that he is sane. He is stationed in Italy and has flown 40 or 50 missions, and he tries to explain to a friend what troubles him about this: "They're trying to kill me." No one is trying to kill you, the friend says. "Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asks...
...ONLY SANE POLICY this country can adopt is one that promotes the power of the Soviet civilian government at the expense of the military. Increased defense spending, the MX missile system, rhetorical duels and the like will serve solely to give the generals a boost. Detente--which didn't work simply because it was never really tried--is the solution. Increased economic, scientific, cultural and educational exchange, all mutually beneficial propositions, certainly won't make the current Soviet-American relationship worse. And these policies might just help any moderates that exist within the Soviet power structure to assert themselves...