Word: saneness
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...Many subscribers like myself must have welcomed the return of the Cinema column after its long absence, liking its frank and sane appreciations. Most of us, I think, recognize the piffle that still permeates many films, and we like to be told in advance where it may be found-or avoided. Do not, TIME, cease to tell the truth in art as your reviewer sees it, until you cease to tell the truth in news...
...career, whetting the fighting edge of his ambition on the grindstone of his persecution.* Inaugurated once more, he reiterated all the things he wanted to do for Mississippi. The list sounded to the holiday crowd that had flocked to Jackson from counting house and cotton field, like a sane program to fulfill. It included...
...does not appear that Mr. Boyd is trying to jazz up his critical reputation by mere wanton attacks upon the traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that...
...jurors were so touched by Defendant Remus's description of how he spent last Christmas in prison that they petitioned to have him set free at once without waiting for the test, required by law, to see if he was sane enough to be at large. Refusal of this petition did not daunt Mr. Remus. He received kisses and congratulations from the jurors in his cell and hysterically pledged the rest of his life to "stifling the insult which is upon our statutes known as the National Prohibition...
...Significance. The author has chosen a most unlikely plot for his novel and accomplished a truly rare job. It is an important piece of literature, imaginative, logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity...