Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to work for many years towards a degree, and except for teachers, most can not get credit in their occupation for liberal arts study. Yet students, whether they are passive auditors, seeking cultural pleasures, or pathetically eager, seldom lack a genuine interest in learning for learning's sake," one lecturer...
Sorokin, who defines altruism as "love for love's sake," and creative altruism as 'two parties trying to help each other achieve an objective of positive value," revealed that introductory letters concerning the Association have been sent to ten men who are leaders in their respective professional fields...
...Theatre de Lys did not--to isolate the songs from the action with the blackout and other epic staging methods. But lighting and staging are not the only difficulties of the technique. Continuity and dramatic effect are obstacles, for it is quite possible that deliberate breaks for the sake of understanding will also break the interest and concentration evoked by sustained tension. It is also possible that the rapid pace, the harsh atonal music, and the intimacy of actors and audience will become disconcerting rather than spellbinding. The Lowell House Music Society must realize that an epic production requires heroic...
...talking of problems 25 to 30 years from new, Griswold noted that "it is easy to mesmerize oneself with numbers. But it is foolish to consider expansion for its won sake...
...being printed under the title, Swedish Youth Speaks, I found a partial answer to my own question. "I have no real morals," said a boy of 19. "And I would never marry a girl because I had made her pregnant. Why should I give up my liberty for the sake of a child...