Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubtful if Stravinsky in his austere mood would approve the performances which Stokowski and his orchestra gave last week in collaboration with Manhattan's League of Composers. Stravinsky's intention was to scorn theatric devices, even program notes. He put his text into Latin for the sake of still greater obscurity; illusion was to come from the music alone. But a part of Stokowski's genius is expressed in his willingness to walk where angels fear to tread. It is nothing new for him to appear to know more about a piece of music than the man who wrote...
Limited as may be the influence of this particular film it points out a fertile field for movies in the future. With the present technical knowledge it is doubtful whether music for its own sake will ever be really important in the sound picture, but in combination with visual forms it still has far to go. What the movies need now, which the filming of "Oedipus Rex" should illustrate, is the development of an art and technique peculiarly suited to the medium of the screen. Chaplin has worked out one type of movie style, the silhouette is another...
...rugby match most appropriately marks the renewal of Harvard-Princeton contests in Cambridge. No lengthy training, no five dollar seats, and no shrieking ballyhoo have any part in the game. The priests of "sport for sport's sake" can burn another hecatomb. For the spectators, any lack of technique among the players will certainly be compensated by the appearance in person of that famous Will o' the Wisp, the amateur spirit...
...Avid for business, last week the New York Produce Exchange started trading in the stock of this new company on a "no name yet" basis. For convenience sake traders called the company "Columbia Graphophone & Gramophone...
...Heaven's sake! Are you going to build a Chinese wall around new methods...