Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern architecture may look good on a college campus, but alumni seldom think so. They want the new buildings they finance to look just like the old ones for sentiment as well as for the sake of architectural harmony. Florida's University of Miami is trying to solve the architectural problem by a clean break with its not-so-distant (1925) past: it is building an all-modern school on a new campus...
Suppose, for example, that tomorrow the U.S., Britain and France should sit down with Russia to talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
...reasons were plain. The defense program needed only about 2% of anticipated steel production this fiscal year, and will need less than 3% in the following. For the sake of efficiency, the President assigned the job of filling such relatively small needs to the Department of Commerce, which is already supervising a number of voluntary programs, instead of to the Secretary of Defense, as he could have done under the new law. But he warned: "I have given serious consideration to the problems posed by this legislation. I am, of course, prepared to exercise this authority should it prove necessary...
...portly, generous gentleman, more at home with his fellow expatriate Henry James than with the eccentric Bohemians of the art world. He resisted the Pre-Raphaelites and "Ruskin, don't you know . . . silly old thing." He ignored the principles of art for art's sake, detested Gauguin and Van Gogh. His advice to one of his own disciples: "Begin with Franz Hals, copy and study Franz Hals, after that go to Madrid and copy Velasquez...
...books that followed Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn exhibited less dirt-and less talent. Miller overwrote for the sheer sake of verbosity; he made hyperbole into a principle of composition. Everything he described was either incredibly glorious or incredibly distasteful. On a visit to Greece he felt "a stillness so intense that for a fraction of a second I heard the great heart of the world beat. . ." Revisiting the cities of America he found "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum . . . the most horrible place on God's earth." Critic Alfred Kazin once said of him: "Is there anything...