Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More power to Barbara Brown and her campaign against the "snob sisters." ... I am quite sure that I don't want my daughter to be educated to condone dirty politics for the sake of the "right" combination of Greek-letter men, draw only one line in life-the color line, think that a pin serves as the key to every door approached, judge another by her seams instead of her soul, bow to a "beta" but never bend her knee in prayer, or be humiliating but never humble...
...slopes for recreation and painting his razor-edged cubist landscapes whenever the spirit moves him. He thinks too few of his fellow moderns paint with real feeling for the everyday world of sights, sounds and smells. "Much art today," says Ghika, "is an acte gratuit-done for the sake of doing it. It's done with no purpose-it's a play and after a while you don't know what to do with it. A painting ought to respond to some human necessity...
Several people started for the Bey with poised pins and had to line up for order's sake. Then they began. Before long, Tarah was clothed in a swath of white cloth, a smile to show he didn't mind at all, and about ten pins. When my medical acquaintance tried to shove his pin into the bony part of the Insensate Swami's hand, Bey, who does not speak English, whispered something to the interpreter. The interpreter did not bother to translate for the audience, but snatched the Bey's hand away from the grinning student and motioned...
...half satiric comedy, half court masque. Alexander Pope was told of his translation of the Iliad: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Perhaps the City Center should not call this Shakespeare; perhaps the audience even puts up with the play for the sake of the props. But in any case...
...from any point of view are incredibly stupid and not likely to improve the cause of either peace or the security of the United states. It is quite easy for such people to be flittered by certain organizations. They are told they are great. Shall we say for the sake of argument, a great biologist or anatomist or anything you want, is told 'you views must be heard' . . . Politically some of them are naive beyond belief...