Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deaths a year. And the Department of Transportation issued a policy statement promising to make public soon the names of auto brands that fail to meet Federal safety standards. Next, Nader plans to petition the Federal Aviation Agency to ban smoking on planes for safety's sake...
...victory, you've closed the labs, there's no need for more blood, for God's sake, "Lettvin said, tears rolling down his cheeks. But the protestors continued chanting "MIRV goes first" while he spoke. "My God, they won't listen." Lettvin said...
...added that "if a good majority of Lowell House is anxious to do this, then I would be anxious to help them. If this isn't true, however, then perhaps it isn't worth making so much disruption for the sake of a limited number of people for one term...
Consider Barnett Frummer. He is a radical for love's sake who finds himself stuck to the hot asphalt pavement after going limp while protesting housing discrimination. He is the hapless yearner for un-chic Rosalie Mondle, who might one day paint "Get Out of Vietnam" across his chest. He is the groping incipient gourmet (trying to out-cook his friends) who dreams that he is accused of eating Fritos. He is the poor chap who cannot get invited to those with-it parties Rosalie attends, "where whites gathered to be castigated by some prominent Negro." Says Barnett...
Accordingly, we Americans tend to run through great numbers of short-lived heroes at a colossal rate. In recent years we have used and used up Ernest Hemingway, Otis Redding, a string of Kennedys, Joe Namath, Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, even George Plimpton (for God's sake). It is next to impossible to survive as a culture hero: you either die or you are exposed. (Or, in the saddest cases, both...