Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Payne in the television room of his boss's Orange County home, slugged her with a hammer and then shot her twice with a .22 rifle. He was found cutting the dying girl's clothes off with a pair of scissors. He fled, was captured, tried, found sane, and sentenced to die this month in the gas chamber at San Quentin Penitentiary...
...leading actor must be able to make sudden shifts between the two worlds--one sane and the other mad--with convincing jumps in technique. And the rest of the cast must keep pace with him. Fortunately for the HDC production, Thomas Gaydos is a most convincing Henry. Throughout the first act his performance has a bizarre flavor that passes very well for insanity. Gaydos can even roll his eyes in approved madman style without a trace of hackneyed or forced acting. Then, in scene one of the second act, he becomes rational without the awkwardness that too sudden...
...from people things they ought to know." Because of this, said the apostle of the left-wing Socialism known as Bevanism, Britons "are no longer capable of a right assessment of the international scene . . . For the first three or four years after the war, the British people were comparatively sane. Now they are practically insane...
Also important, however, is the planning by the College of a sane schedule for Harvard football, a schedule which has helped to keep Ivy League standards above the commercialism prevalent in intercollegiate athletics today. By holding to its standards, the League has fostered good, competitive football. This year, no more than two touchdowns separated Harvard from any of its Ivy opponents. For this reason, the planned Ivy Group takes on a special importance as it will provide a continued opportunity for hard, spirited, but still amateur games. It is only under the proposed system that Ivy football will be able...
...things in your magazine have been more sane than the very accurate appraisal you give [Sept. 21] of the role of the late Justice Holmes as an opponent of order. The ridiculous pedestal on which modern skeptics and relativists...have put the master of "humbug" deserves to be toppled...