Word: saneness
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Before sentencing Mike last week, Judge Bondy asked if he were sane. When the prosecutor pointed out that he got the money. Mike grinned. Snorted Judge Bondy: "Well, is the bank sane then? . . . It's incredible...
This statement safe & sane though it might sound to most laymen, caused many an old eyebrow to rise in Wall Street last week. For one of the New York Stock Exchange's oldest and most honored traditions is official silence on the state of the market. And the speaker was forthright Charles Richard Gay, the Exchange's "New Deal" president, talking to an Associated Press reporter...
...Henry Adams, the precocious young son of the American Minister to London, put it, "If in the domain of the world's politics, one point was fixed, one value ascertained, one element serious, it was the British Exchequer, and if one man lived who could be certainly counted as sane . . . it was the man who had in charge the finances of England . . ." Yet in the frenzied undercover drama that took place in the British capital during the years of the American Civil War, no character was made more of a monkey than the Chancellor of the English Exchequer...
...talismans of William Shakespeare and Walter Huston will rightly lure Harvard men by the drove, no matter what a critic may say. And indeed no sane critic could protest, the entertainment is as rich and abundant as the fondest playgoer can conceivably expect...
Moderately sane people don't go to the movies to learn anything, least of all in history. Therefore, if a show is good entertainment, it is little short of pedantry to inquire into its authenticity. "The Gorgeous Hussy" may be the acme of historical precision, or it may be almost pure fiction. The latter possibility is, of course, the more likely. But 90% of the audience, including the Crimson Moviegoer, don't care, and 99%, again including said reviewer, don't know...