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Most other colleges held off on the curfew. Certainly a Harvard man is as safe and sane as one from Dartmouth. Boston Traveler, October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/19/1950 | See Source »

John Patrick has written a successful comedy about a widow who has hidden her $10,000,000 fortune from her avaricious heirs. They do not discover that the money is gone until after they have committed her to a mental institution. She is only too sane and manager to make them look even there ridiculous than her fellow inmates in the search for the money. Mr. Patrick has happily peopled his rest home with fresh and likable people and has avoided the pitfalls of sentiment. There is no suggestion that these search people are better off than their stronger brethren...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 9/27/1950 | See Source »

While it is probable that there are people who make a cult of dianetics, that fact is irrelevant. The only issue is whether or not it works toward making people more happy and more sane . . . Sane people do not belong to cults . . . We agree that Hubbard makes too many wild generalizations . . . But if dianetics works, what is now hyperbole may become cold fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1950 | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...some sane art in your pages? Why must we always look at psychopathic doodles of the queer, the charlatan, the tongue-in-cheek jests of artists who can draw or paint and the childish "primitives" of those who cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Psychiatrists believe that there is a large group of people in the U.S.-perhaps half a million-who are legally sane (i.e., they know the difference between right & wrong) but socially irresponsible. Many of them are brilliant and charming. Their condition is likened to a fine automobile with no brakes. At any time they may steal, maim or kill, and when they do they will feel little or no remorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Brakes | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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