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...year "working" (i.e., studying) declared, "I finally realized two cardinal rules about working: first, all the assigned work in courses can't be finished: second, grades don't increase proportionately to the hours spent." Once these rules are accepted, most freshmen try some other activity to try to stay sane...
...forbidden to travel for three years after his U.S. tour in 1958, and was later granted an exit visa only on condition that his wife remained in Russia as a "moral hostage." Eventually, Khrushchev gave them permission to travel together, arid once they left home, they never returned. "No sane person would wish to run such a risk again," said Ashkenazy...
...maintain that it is dangerous to show too much to people who do not know what they are looking at. I think that a man who is sane as long as he looks at the world through his own eyes is very likely to become a dangerous madman if he takes to looking at the world through telescopes and microscopes...
...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...