Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religion did not come to Phillips Brooks House looking for either endowments of office space. Hastie sought them out and offered it to them. That most of them were not enthusiastic over his plans is ample proof that Hastie is seeking to inject religion into PBH for its own sake, not because Brooks House needs religion or because religion needs...
...example must be sought in Christ, says Toynbee, "not of shrinking from the suffering inherent in Human Nature, but of accepting it for the sake of saving human beings"; and in the bodhisattva (a future Buddha) whose characteristic virtue was "his fortitude in withstanding a perpetual temptation to desert his self-assigned post in a world of painful action in order to take the short cut to oblivion that lay perpetually open to him . . . Western Man's task [is] to school himself to 'living dangerously...
...what might be called conscious intellectual striving on the part of the Cornell student body, even in the Arts college, as compared with its Harvard counterpart. There is, to be as a means of gaining entrance to graduate school, but not so much on intellectual achievement for its own sake. Certain voluntary associations of students in cooperative houses, notably the Telluride Association, do emphasize intellectual ability in choosing their members and attempt to offer intellectually minded students an atmosphere of stimulation. But the existence of these groups is in itself perhaps a sign that such an atmosphere is not wide...
...with topnotch Broadway Producer Robert (The Time of the Cuckoo) Whitehead and fellow Tycoon Robert Dowling (City Investing Co.) to form a glittering $1,000,000 triumvirate. Its aims: "To produce plays and operate playhouses" on a businesslike, year-round basis-and to take risks for art's sake as well as to make a profit...
...learned more about Natsukawa's kindly ways. For example, any Ohmi girl who married despite all the difficulties had her wages cut "because of decrease in efficiency." Such stories put public opinion behind the strikers. Natsukawa countered by offering strikebreakers a handsome $1.25 a day, plus cigarettes and sake. He sent a fleet of light planes to shower Tokyo and Osaka with 10 million leaflets, distributed thousands of matchboxes, floated huge balloons over Osaka with his message: "The All-Japan Textile Workers Union is destroying Japan's industry through Communist Party violence...