Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of winning a military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity...
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity...
...felt a desperate urge to go out screaming to all the protesters and Viet-niks, "Look! For God's sake, open your eyes and look...
...point concerned a small-time Los Angeles gambler, Charles Katz, whose calls from a public phone booth had been bugged by the FBI without a warrant and with a device that had been taped to the top of the booth to avoid the trespass disability. Stewart conceded for the sake of argument that the FBI agents did not bug until they had good reason to believe that Katz was using the phone to violate federal law; then they were careful to listen only to Katz and to stop as soon as they had collected what they were listening...
Consternation reigned at the Basel Museum. The foundation intimated that a wealthy American had offered $2,560,000 for the Picassos, but for the sake of sentiment, it would be willing to let the museum have them for a mere $1,950,000. The museum's annual acquisitions fund is only $65,000, but the Basel city government voted to contribute $1,372,000, provided that the remaining $578,000 could be raised from private sources. Dozens of townsfolk pitched in to raise the money, schoolchildren canvassed the streets, artists offered paintings and pottery for sale at a street...