Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoiding business. Harvard places an optimum reward on academic achievement. The reward-incentive structure is one in which you receive quality of grades commensurate with quality of intellectual output. You use your brain, you get a gold star. In its most extreme case, it is scholarship for scholarship's sake. The college supposedly fosters freedom of thought, inventiveness and use of the intellect. Top students spend their time learning to conceptualize, theorize and philosophize...
...without the conspicuous seizure of an administration building, the demonstration gradually has disintegrated into a piece of civil disobedience in bad faith. When the protestors refused at first to talk with the Columbia Administration's spokesman David B. Truman, they opened themselves to charges of "protest for protest's sake." Since illegal demonstrations are intentionally public acts, how they look is not inconsequential...
...cheering audience was in a mood to name Bernstein an honorary citizen What he had done essentially was follow Composer Strauss's own advice to interpret Rosenkavalier "with one eye weeping and one eye winking." Thus while most Viennese conductors play down the rich orchestral part for the sake of the singers, Bernstein gave it new prominence, urging it on by jumping into the air and dancing on the podium to Strauss's three-quarter rhythms. And while he captured the elegiac bittersweetness that is at the very heart of the autumnal work, he freed...
...this generation," says Simon. "Nobody says, 'If you want to know what I think talk to Simon & Garfunkel.' Everybody has got his own ideas. I don't consider myself a poet. I'm a songwriter. I'm not interested in puzzling people for the sake of puzzlement. I like what I say to be heard and understood...
...possibility?particularly if his peace moves yield results. But after his speech, Johnson summoned reporters to the Cezanne-studded Yellow Room in the living quarters of the White House and told them that his decision was "completely irrevocable." A reporter suggested sympathetically that he was sacrificing himself for the sake of unity. "No," he snapped, "I am not sacrificing anything. I am just doing what I think is right, what I think is best calculated to permit me to render the maximum service possible to the country in the limited time that I have left...