Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plot deals with the adventures of Tom Stewert, who for the sake of his friend, Dick Lockhart, plays the part of a long lost son. The developments are at all times obvious. Tom falls in love with a charming seamstress of good family, is besieged by a scheming adventuress, dashes heroically off on his horse to divert the officers of the law who are in pursuit of Dick, and returns to win his "heart o' th' heather...
...Dante, and quotes, "The human race cannot live happily without freedom, but this political liberty must be based upon freedom of judgment." To this we may add, from the same poet, "Upright governments have liberty as their aim, that men may live for themselves; not citizens for the sake of the consuls, not a people for a king, but conversely, consuls for the sake of the citizens, and a king for his people...
...doing things, who take an objective view of life, who think of it in terms of action, will not usually make great ministers. They are better executives and business men than prophetic leaders. Scientific men, chiefly interested in knowing things, caring mostly for truth for the truth's sake, while they are not infrequently found in the profession, are not the most at home there. The type of man who will find his place in the ministry is of the expressive or artistic sort; the man who is not so much interested in practical or intellectual as literary and creative...
...exists primarily for the sake of defending himself. He exists for the sake of doing things. The same is true of nations. Among the things which a man may be called on to do are the helping and protecting of others. The same is true of nations. We Americans have passed our national infancy; it is no longer our chief biological function to feed and fatten and protect ourselves. We have reached the age of public responsibility; and unless we wish to invite national atrophy and decline, we must make up our mind to do a man's part...
...program says, a "vital throbbing, human play." It is unpleasant in its strongest parts and there are few laughs to break the general denseness of the whole. But it presents in a vividly, graphic way, a question of importance to all. For this reason, and for the sake of Miss Ferguson's acting, if for no others, "Outcast" is a play which should be seen...