Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek tragedy. How cleverly the authoress has argued her parallel may be seen by this sentence: "An instinctive dread, a premonition of danger, seizes the Chorus (the lesser Forsytes) even before the appearance of this strange and unsafe creature (Bosinney). It is perhaps straining a point for the sake of consistency to carry over this symbolical hierarchy into all of Galsworthy's work: the essay manages it with but little implausibility. If the symbolistic explanation seems to quaver in some places, it is balanced by first-rate exposition, of the theme of Forsytes possessiveness, of the links between Forsyte character...
Paderewski's diplomacy at Versailles and his struggle to harmonize Poland are matters of history. When for unity's sake he relinquished the premiership, left fighting Josef Pilsudski in command, the world had no idea that it would soon be hearing Paderewski the pianist again. But Paderewski's energy has always been phenomenal and his fortune had been all but lost on Poland...
...only nine words with which to address you, I would rise here and say: 'Keep prices down-for God's sake, keep prices down...
...cited (calling Bill Corbus "Stanford's All-American guard"-TIME, Nov. 20), TIME has in other instances erred in the use of "All-American"; 4) that at least one TIME-reader (C. H. McWilliams of Wilmington, Ohio) perceived Purist Hill's concealed point. For purity's sake, therefore, TIME acknowledges at least a safety scored against it, awards subscriptions to the unbeaten Princeton freshmen and their Coach Johnny Gorman at no cost to Purist Hill, whose determination to "trick" TIME (he now reveals) was formed months ago when he became "incensed" at TIME's frank reference...
...Francisco found its home talent gratifying. For brevity's sake Conductor Dobrowen had omitted the first movement but young Alexander Fried, San Francisco's most level-headed critic (Chronicle), found that the slow second movement had "emotional nobility" in spite of the instrumentation's technical shortcomings, that its jazzy third movement has "as just a place in a Yankee Symphony of this generation as a minuet has in a Mozart Symphony of the 18th Century." With the Bacon Symphony Conductor Dobrowen shot his last bolt until March. This week Conductor Bernardino Molinari takes over the San Francisco...