Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help, there may be anarchy in France. The Americans have offered to help all those countries which are willing to help each other. We have accepted. Now let's get ahead. Pour l'amour de Dieu, pas de pagaille! [For God's sake, let's not mess around...
...preface that heads off his detractors before they can get at him, Author Maugham writes: "It is a misfortune for me that the telling of a story just for the sake of the story is not an activity that is in favor with the intelligentsia. I endeavor to bear my misfortune with fortitude." Routine as they are, the stories in Creatures of Circumstance will provide Old Party Maugham with the kind of royalty checks that help him bear...
...Liturgy is a language of coordinated sentences and gestures; it thus guarantees and defines the common meaning of the words and their actual authority... . Simplifying for the sake of symmetry, one might say that theology provokes reflection in regard to certain terms, while liturgy makes of them reflexes of the entire being...
...most people may think him a freak, rather than a personification of one kind of big-business tyranny. And Adolphe Menjou, expert as he is as the head of the agency, appears more interested in getting laughs than in illustrating what a man can do to himself for the sake of money. Some of the picture's trimmings are shrewder stuff. There are viciously funny glimpses of a commercial photographer, a comedian (Keenan Wynn), an actor's agent (Edward Arnold) and two skilled script-plumbers; and the singing commercials are as horribly funny as the real thing...
...Reason frequently attempts to shock the reader with pointless vulgarity (". . .a faint, sour reek of vomit came from her delicate mouth. Mathieu inhaled it ecstatically"). Existentialists may deny that such scenes are introduced for sensationalism's sake, but they have not explained why it is necessary to expound their doctrine solely from a worm's eye view of life. What one of the characters calls "the freemasonry of the urinal" will seem, to many readers, an accurate description of Sartre's own books...