Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sake. How am I supposed to do that?" Clipper avoided the staring eyes of fellow passengers and lollers on the shore...
While recognizing the urgency of the national situation and the "inextricable involvement" of American universities in it, Pusey saw a "nobler rivalry of the enterprise of science," in which "the combatants are conscious solely of discovery for discovery's sake...
...look for the Great American Play all the time ... I think there's a danger that the more temperate drama might be washed out of sight in favor of a play like Niagara, that indunates you... I think the chief danger is the acceptance of excitement for excitement's sake...
...certainly don't know anyone whom actors venerate so much. But he seems to prefer plays concerned with extremes of pain, extremes of guilt, extremes of hysteria. Now there are a lot of awfully good plays on that subject"; here he instances Oedipus Rex. But "Oedipus expiates for the sake of his entirectiy," while the heroes of J.B. and Sweet Bird of Youth (the two plays most recently directed by Kazan) are concerned in their expiation only with themselves. "Somehow the connection between strong emotion and human responsibility seems to have been cut off in his mind--and other people...
...fangs are shattered like a "cheap teacup," to the last, where his skull is shattered by a junkman's hardware, it is never quite clear whether or not these are real events or visions induced by laughing gas. Like Baudelaire's true voyagers who leave for the sake of leaving, Desmond travels a long way sitting down. What is real is the poetry. Desmond's train at first seems actual enough, with slogans penciled "by obscenely-minded orangemen": "To Hell with Hitler. Down with Dublin. Up Kerry all the Time." Yet it is not quite a train...