Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unruh typifies scores of other Democrats who, for the sake of their own political careers, are wary of becoming too closely associated with the national ticket. Many partisans from the McCarthy-Robert Kennedy-George McGovern antiwar ranks have come over to the Vice President, but most have done so reluctantly and are supporting him without enthusiasm. Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, was less than passionate when he allowed: "I expect in the end that I will keep my franchise as a Democrat." Because he is in a tough campaign for re-election...
...order, at best the glory of any society and at least an unobjectionable cliche, should have turned into a controversy. Partly it has happened because many vocal protesters put forth the old but troubling idea that, in certain circumstances, law and order must be defied for the sake of a higher justice...
PLAYING around was what it was all about, and if it's no fun then it's not playing anymore. The Beatles played with the all powerful media men (for God's sake, John, be decent to these reporters they can make or break you), they played with the Royal Family, and they played with Ed Sullivan. They played with each other...
...probably remember of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven," or Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got a Hold on Me." Or "Please, Mr. Postman." Or "Act Naturally." They were the first to turn us on to a lot of things we later grew to love for their own sake. But their version was always something special. There was a quality of ironic distance or dual consciousness in their version. It was a sense of the Beatles playing wholeheartedly at the being black, at being Chuck Berry, at being Buck Owens, but remaining the Beatles at the same time...
...that indoor-outdoor carpeting isn't soft either, and it doesn't wear well," Miss Porritt said. "We talked to architects all last spring, and for the sake of maintenance and quiet, cork is the most satisfactory substance...