Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Harvard follow Yale for purely economic reasons, as such action would constitute a reversal of Harvard's newer policy which stresses "athletics for all." If financial stringencies point inevitably toward such a stop in order to balance the H.A.A. budget, it is time once more to demand a sane budget founded on an endowment fund made possible through strict economies and a fixed revenue realized by the placement of a standard fee on all undergraduate term bills...
...subject of training in the way attempted yesterday. The demanded indiscriminate investigations by undergraduate athletes for the purpose of reporting teammates guilty of breaking training would be patently foolish and absurd. Such a course cannot be deprecated too strongly; it would severely injure the growth of a sane attitude toward sports...
Shoehorned humbly into a group of presumably sane people-his host, a lawyer, two girl friends, a housekeeper, a butler, a detective and the host's sister- Parker progressively webs them all in their own words and impales them on insane lip-logic. An opportunist juggling ideals, he shifts positions faster than the others, stares long & unfazed into their faces, razzle-dazzles them with winning sophistries until he has confused, ingratiated, amazed, enraged, baffled and terrified them...
...closest to a ponderable theme in Pigeons and People is the old one used by Playwright Cohan of yore, that the sane are insane and the insane sane. Beyond that Cohan comes out flatly in favor of "straightaway" thinking. Cohan theatre, Cohan jauntiness make what promises more into a dialectic jig and a first-rate farce...
Mental disease is a vast public problem. It has become a question of whether to> let people die cancerous and sane, or witless from suspicion of cancer. Cancero-phobia is a serious psychosis...