Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Offered by Mutual of Omaha (insurance), and presented by the A.M.A.'s incoming President Elmer Hess, who sternly advised Dr. Salk: "For heaven's sake, put it on the mortgage...
...sneering epithet. The proper province of art is thought to be merely art. a non-representational play of shapes and colors. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum staged an exhibition of pictures from its archives that graphically refutes the modern proposition of art for the artist's sake...
...mere illustrator. His pictures lack "paint quality," they say, and indeed he does lay paint on canvas as dryly and flatly as any calendar painter. But Hopper's purpose is not to seduce the eye with dribbles or explosions of paint-for-paint's-sake; he makes paint subservient to vision. Showing, not showing off, is to him the important thing...
...purity of love is explained by Sorokin's old-fashioned definition of altruism. "Love known no bargain ... no reward. love is always for love's sake." Sorokin attacks the blind "romantic" kind of love (which he calls "a sort of a fever") as the most typical type of inadequate love...
...twist. Unabashed in dialogue if a bit evasive in theme, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof had Williams' usual plunging force and reckless, unbraked use of it. Maxwell Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy whodunit, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution made murder a pleasure...