Word: saneness
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Liberty v. Unity. Since Christian Europe has liberty even more than unity in its blood, the diversionary policies of Britain have been lucky not only for Englishmen but for Europeans. But what if sane men could put Europe together again where the madmen have failed...
Died. Josephine Hancock Logan, 81, crusading Chicago patroness of science and "sane" art; in Chicago. Mrs. Logan was much perturbed when the generous art prize she and her husband had endowed for 18 years went to Doris Lee's gently caricatural Thanksgiving in 1935. She thereupon dedicated a society for "Sanity in Art" to the proposition that "The 'Cuckoo of Publicity' has laid the egg of a new 'dodo bird' in the hard nest of art," thereafter purred contentedly at her own safe & sane exhibits. She was a cofounder of the American College of Surgeons...
...Adams, since 1926 a member of the archconservative National Academy, who first showed his Piatigorsky last year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. In the past, Carnegie judges have sometimes recognized painting of decided originality, such as Peter Blume's South of Scranton. This year's safe & sane first choice prompted one observer to wisecrack: "The judges may know a lot about art, but do they know what they like...
...People," said the late, large Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. . . . It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep...
Captain Eddie hopes for a postwar Eastern Air Lines ten to 15 times its present size. Said he: "Eastern is willing to declare a moratorium on dividends*. . . invest not only our present cash reserve, but all the millions we can borrow in a sound and sane expansion program...