Word: saner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They all believe that competition is good for the soul. Competition selects that neurotic hybrid known as "a Crimeed" from the saner strains of College men, and the grim reaper of competitive toil determines his future career as a college journalist...
...country people calmer, saner, more law-abiding and "better adjusted" than city folks? Back-to-nature enthusiasts, who like to think so, had reason last week to think again. A recent case study of a typical Ohio rural county found that country people, in spite of their slower-paced living, are just as frustrated, neurotic and generally queer as anybody else-perhaps more...
...Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said simply: "We have seen the birth of a great tragic actress...
...which is part of the cure. You will get the whole thing out of your system. And I shall have so much fun tearing them up that I shall probably feel better, too. In this way we shall all save our reason and between us build a fitter, happier, saner world to face the terrors of peace...
...TIME trusts that Emil Holzkopf will have saner teachers...