Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, alluding to Interior Secretary Walter Hickel's unfortunate comment that he did not favor "conservation for conservation's sake" and subsequent trouble receiving Senate confirmation, Nixon delivered a near-perfect one-liner. He was not, purred the President, "in favor of confirmation for confirmation's sake...
...cause or interest whatsoever is as great as the Faculty's stake; after all, we have had our university training, yours is still in progress. You should support the position that professors should speak their minds and should be selected solely for their scholarly competence. It is for your sake that the Faculty resists being bent to the interests of either businessmen or blacks...
...Huivenaar's job to find Westerners who were willing, for the sake of money or sympathy, to let their documents be used in the scheme. In a typical operation, Huivenaar would promise a dupe in the West about $200 for falling in with his plans, then convoy him to a Communist capital such as War saw, Budapest or East Berlin. There the passport would be handed over to an accomplice. Photos would be substituted on it, and it would then be delivered to the prospective escapee...
Even in these bloody times, the violence in Riot is rather extravagant: when cons are shot in the chest, gore gushes from their mouths, and throats are slit with slashing abandon. Director Buzz Kulik shot the film entirely in the Arizona State Prison, more for the sake of novelty than authenticity. He never once manages to capture the claustrophobic frustration of prison life. Although Riot aspires to be reformist social criticism, it is about as effective-and moving-as a convict chorus of Don't Fence...
...examine Ford's four circles or unrest, you will not that there are very prominent gaps in the program of the so-called "wreckers." Apparently we want to destroy for the sake of desruction, or else we want some ill-defined revolution. Since it is true that revolution is not one interest or value among others, then those of us whom he would place in the fourth circle appear to outsiders to have no definite program of interests. In this light, our concern for the interests of others is merely a ruse for the furtherance of our own revolutionary ends...