Word: saneness
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...prisoner was ruled sane by the court and sentenced immediately to a prison term of 14 years. He was called into the Old Bailey Criminal Court and almost within a matter of minutes pleaded guilty to the four counts which had been lodged against him in February...
...special quality of "King Lear" which makes it so difficult to stage, is its summoning up of the elemental powers of Nature, and it is King Lear himself-sometimes sane, sometimes mad like his Foot and Tom O' Bedlam, sometimes an old man, sometimes a king above men-who is most closely connected with Nature. Therefore, if the play is to mean anything, it must have a Lear who can speak with Nature, pluck the infinite out of the false ceiling of the Brattle Theatre. William Devlin is this...
With the scale of its season reduced to a sane level, Harvard would be able to compete on a par with Ivy League opponents except for one item: there is no system of job guarantees at Harvard. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth all offer this much to prospective athletes. Harvard, apparently, wants nothing to do with official job guarantees to its football players. Such a plan involving no more than 50 men would probably hit stonewall resistance--but help for athletes in the form of honest jobs need not depend on favoritism of any sort...
...will be hard enough to find a new coach under any policy, for Valpey has expressed by his departure what every sane coach must feel about Harvard. It will be well nigh impossible to collect a new coaching staff unless the University--the Corporation, the Overseers, the Alumni, and even the President--gives a fast, sure answer to the question posed by Arthur Valpey...
...fact that the council's report also soared off into some sweeping theories about social security and deficit spending did not altogether spoil its conciliatory tone, or diminish its surprise factors. Most of Keyserling's words were sound and sane doctrine that many a businessman had long subscribed to. The wonder was its source...