Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruel Politburo careerist whose ear for music had been destroyed long before by the din of dialectical crossfire. Zhdanov in effect put all Russian composers on trial, including the three modern giants-Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian. The charges: "formalism" (i.e., art for art's sake, individuality, experimentation) and lack of "socialist realism...
...nurse to give him out to a pilot. Off on the pirate's island, Frederick believes the time has come for freedom, his nurse believes he should marry her, and a major general arrives with his seven wards which better fulfill Frederick's wishes and those of the sake of Queen Victoria's name and the revelation that the pirates are really noblemen who went wrong and will gladly go right...
...soon forget him. Wrote one university professor on learning of his coming departure: "I lost my father and all my property in the A-bomb attack, but I have, through Mr. Fotouhi's profound character, come to feel that his remaining here is desired not only for the sake of the U.S. but for the welfare of mankind...
...nose-bobbing for appearances' sake: "If as the patient comes in the door you can't take your eyes off the huge and distorted nose, then reduction is usually justified." But some people with normal noses have a "nasal complex"; no surgery can help them. "Such patients are usually sent by a psychiatrist. The best thing to do is to send them back; the psychiatrist has taken the easy way out by suggesting surgery to cure a nasal complex...
...Department ought to continue its adjustment away from the Nineteenth Century German attitude that minutiae ought to be cultivated for their own sake, and to present with continuing vividness an eternally fascinating and contemporary culture from which the greater part of western civilization has grown, and continues, in large part, to draw its inspiration...