Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Redwood City found Frazier guilty of murder. But Frazier's court-appointed attorney had raised the question of the defendant's sanity, and in accordance with California law, the jury returned later in the week to hear testimony on that issue; if Frazier is judged sane, a third phase of the trial will be held to determine the penalty. Frazier appeared for the hearing with the left side of his head completely shaved, the right side still bearing his beard and long hair. The first suspicion was that Frazier was trying to prove that he was crazy...
Others dismiss him as a jester, a clown or worse. Yet somehow, Baroody occasionally comes across as the one sane man at a mad tea party. He was the only delegate, for example, to bring up the embarrassing point that on the very day the U.N. was beginning a debate on disarmament, the newly admitted Peking regime had chosen to detonate a nuclear bomb. At a loss for an answer, the hapless Chinese delegate replied simply: "I denounce you." Baroody shot back: "This 'denounce'-this is no way to explain your case." Afterward Baroody shrugged: "Someone...
Prisoners often write merely to keep themselves sane. Perhaps it was the same impulse that caused Les Brown to produce a book. After 17 years on the beat, the television editor of Variety set out to chronicle a full year of TV not only from in front of the set, but from behind it, at the corner offices of the networks. He did so in 1970, which, to be sure, was not an average year. It was a period of attacks by Vice President Agnew, of diminishing revenue from cigarette advertising, of unusual audience volatility. The result of Brown...
...most acquisitive Miss America. When her home town, Mobile, Ala., wanted to honor her, she put a price on her appearance and noted, "Checks preferred." But Yolande was also one of the most liberal and active winners. By the early 1960s she was working for the N.A.A.C.P., CORE and SANE. Much to the dismay of pageant managers, she was on the picket line at the first lunch-counter sit-ins in 1960. She denounced the events in Atlantic City as not only racist but also antifeminist. After her husband, Millionaire Matthew Fox, died in 1964, Yolande moved to Washington...
Losing Grip. But was Pound's howling entirely sane? Mary deals with that matter as cryptically as possible. "He was . . . losing grip. His tongue was tricking him into . . . violent expressions." But her description of what happened to Pound when the war ended is detailed and grim. He was arrested by two small-time crooks who had learned that there was a 500,000-lira reward for his capture. Handcuffed to an accused murderer, he was taken by Jeep to a military jail near Pisa. There, at the age of 60, he was kept like an animal in an outdoor...