Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 (1961) once again made use of farce as the agent of the most probing criticism: Who is sane, the book asks, in a world whose major energies are devoted to blowing itself up?
To stay sane, we book workouts that we'll have to pay to cancel (nothing gets us going like a financial incentive).
She is about to embark on a new tour inspired by her book Sane New World, out now in paperback.
Discussing choreographic theory in "The Art of Making Dances," her otherwise sane and inspiring book of 1959, Humphrey made occasional snide references to the newer abstract choreographers of her day.
It seems that halfway through this initially sane and lively book, the chase sequences take over and the plot moves from the corridors of power to an abandoned gold mine.
In the midst of doing publicity for my book Sane New World, I'm endlessly asked about my depression, even though it is not particularly about mental illness but rather how all of our minds/brains work and how, with practice, we can drive them rather than be driven by them.
He was an old man then, with rheumy eyes, a slick of white hair and trousers buttoned high on his belly, but he was still the man I had read about in the book; sane and rational, a man who, for a while, had lived an extraordinary life but who now wanted only to be ordinary.
Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, is shown celebrating Lisa's purchase of his book, Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow, by listening to "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang.
One of the things that kept her sane was reading books, including Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Last year our reviewer, Brad Leithauser, called this "a sane, canny, steadily informative book".
