Word: saneness
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Heywood Broun: "... Before the play ends she is stark raving mad. So instead of the problem of white and black, we have the problem of sane and insane ... In the uneven career of Eugene O'Neill I think All God's Chillun will rank as one of the down strokes...
...traditional Man from Mars dropped last week into Philadelphia and then bounced over to Boston, and subsequently returned to Mars, there would have been one question to which he could have made no sane answer to inquisitive friends and relatives: " What is the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.?" In Philadelphia, passing through Locust Street, he would have seen a pageant of dressed-up priests-a crucifix, bearing a shining cross of gold, torchbearers in red cassocks and cottas, priests in serried ranks followed by monks of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High...
...would be wholly desirable. The criminal, even though he is to be regarded as an invalid, must be brought to realize that although society pities him, it also disapproves. What can be done is to eliminate the spirit of vindictiveness that has existed, and to substitute for it one sane, helpful cooperation, with every influence working for a beneficial result...
...remarks against prohibition elicited no response from undergraduates: In part, the Spectator's defense of Dr. Butler is doubtless the expression of unthinking loyalty and perhaps even more of a desire to disprove the press statements that Columbia is a soothing hot bed of controversy." Yet its sane observation that "a law on the statute books is not so sacrosanct that one is forhidden to comment upon it or call attention to its shortcomings" contrasts pleasantly with the bitter personal arguments of Dr. Butler's attackers and defenders...
About two years ago he hypnotized Fräulein Pohl, daughter of Admiral von Pohl, and held her under his spell until a rival hypnotist jumped his claim and returned the girl to father. He was then put in a lunatic asylum, but later adjudged sane and released...