Word: sanest
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...media circles sniffing with disdain, readers this week will see the first issue of Lear's. The brainchild and namesake of Frances Lear, former wife of Hollywood Producer Norman Lear, the new magazine is dedicated to the proposition that "women over 40 -- yesterday's 'mad housewives' -- are today's sanest, most creative, most interesting Americans...
...sanest way for the U.S. Air Force Academy to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of Catch-22 would be to ask the author to come celebrate on campus. But wouldn't that be by definition insane? Never mind. When it actually wants to do something, the military just plows ahead. Which is how Joseph Heller wound up spending last weekend at the academy. Heller thought the idea not the least bit strange. "Catch-22 is no more antiwar or antimilitary than other novels," he says. "What it's critical of is dishonesty, personal corruption, ambition -- what any decent person would...
Even the the sanest professional sport--baseball--is now playing an expanded playoff schedule that started while there was still snow on the turt in several ballparks, and the season won't wind up until almost November (serious snow potential there...
...then a platoon of police to take him away for further tests. When social workers offered him lodging in one of the city's shelters for the homeless, Cruz sniffed: "The shelters are pigpens." Said one local newspaper columnist: "He must have been one of the sanest men in the city of New York to refuse to live in those places." But at week's end Cruz had been relocated to a room in Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward to await legal proceedings about his fate...
Harvard students, especially those who've listened to the likes of Richard Pipes, should realize the first, most obvious, reason why Ronald Reagan should be denied the presidency: in a world one decision away from nuclear conflagration, only the coolest of heads, the sanest of men, should be allowed to command our military. Obsessed with fears of Russian imperialism and spreading Marxism, neither Reagan nor his likely advisers fit that description. And even if the mushroom clouds never appear on the horizon, their "hard-nosed" approach to diplomacy seems likely to maintain and extend America's relationships with the "free...