Word: sane
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...broadcasts for the Italian government during World War II, and was charged with treason when he was returned to the U.S. He was then declared insane and committed to a mental hospital for 12 years, after which the indictment was dismissed and it was ultimately decided that he was sane after all. Pound has lived in Europe in self-imposed exile ever since. But the past was laid aside during Hamilton's commencement exercises as the poet, now 84, received well-wishers and autographed a copy of his Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVIL...
FORTY CARATS, with Julie Harris as a middle-aged divorcee wooed and won by a lad nearly half her age, enters a sane and plausible plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage...
...keys--I always sit on the left to see his hands--and, unbelievable as it seems, simply sat there without motion or sound. Well, the audience regressed from expectation to uneasiness; then, in crescendo of frustration, through irritation--it was hot, the air fairly visible--rumor (Is he stricken? Sane? Obstinat?) anger, shouting, disgust, and finally mass departure. What is music coming to...?" Only to renewal. The pianist, by refusing to "play," gave rhetorical expression to one of the dramatic esthetics of musical avant-garde composer John Cage. Our matronly subscriber almost certainly goes to ten concerts, sits...
...extremists want that? Some do. In their view, it would ripen the U.S. for revolution. And yet the university is one of the best possible bases from which sane radicals can expect to mount sizable political support in the U.S. Only the campus is ideally equipped to analyze or attack poverty and pollution, to appeal to the ghetto as well as suburbia. How it should so use those skills is an open question, but if radicals seriously hope to change society, destroying universities is sheer lunacy. The trouble is, of course, that their goal is less reform than romance?coming...
...hospitals, and some courts permit more elastic definitions-such as the Durham rule.* If a man is deemed insane under any legal definition, he is not responsible for his criminal act at the time he committed it and therefore cannot be blamed for it. Says U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist John Suarez, "sane or insane is equivalent to guilty or not guilty." While psychiatrists are equipped to give an opinion of a man's mental state, they bridle at being asked to say whether a man should be blamed for a specific act, since this goes well beyond the frontiers of their...