Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronx Blanche DuBois, a woman defying her mean surroundings by living in a world of her own with smelling salts and trailing dresses and a stubborn refusal to go to work "no matter how needy the rest of the family might be. She was "a touching combination of the sane and the ludicrous along with some secret splendor within herself." Come debt or hunger, she would go to the theater, taking her nephew with her, and when there wasn't even a quarter for the gas meter, she would read her novels by candlelight, teaching Moss that the mind...
...terrible-tempered Governor James Michael Curley fired him in 1936, U.S. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes hired him as head of St. Elizabeths, a federal hospital. Teaching at George Washington University, he concentrated on spreading psychiatry among general practitioners because "there will never be enough psychiatrists to go around." His sane humanism -he is a book collector, music lover, once served as moderator of the American Unitarian Association-stood him in good stead at St. Elizabeths, where he lives with his family. For 13 years he endured endless legal wrangling over his most celebrated patient, Poet Ezra Pound; but more important...
...fled the state). The second pair of letters announced Long's appointment of two of his oldtime cronies to the jobs. The fifth letter came from Bankston's newly appointed successor, addressed to Belcher's newly appointed successor. The gist: Earl K. Long is sane; he should be released from the mental hospital. Attorney General Jack Gremillion stood up: "Your Honor, there is no one now with authority to hold Earl K. Long at the hospital. The state joins in a motion to discontinue." Judge Jones leaned forward. "Since there is no opposition, the motion [to free...
...week, with the case of the murderous petty officer as his text, the Menninger Clinic's Dr. Joseph Satten offered the American Psychiatric Association an explanation of a phenomenon that has long baffled both courts and psychiatrists. Most murderers fall into one of two neat classes: the legally sane, who have an understandable motive such as robbery, and the legally insane, such as the paranoid who kills his imagined persecutor. But now and then there appears a third type -the man who kills without apparent motive, yet appears sane before and after the crime...
Sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the statement supports Senate Resolution 96, introduced by Minnesota Democrat Hubert M. Humphrey. The proposed resolution affirms the Senate's backing of the current Geneva negotiations to end nuclear weapons tests...