Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committed pacifist, Father Prosser has tried to persuade his students not to join the wokamana (boys) in the Patriotic Front forces training across the border in Mozambique. "I pleaded with them not to go, to think for God's sake of their parents. But in every single case it had no effect whatsoever." Not only did a fifth of the 450 boys in the upper school leave, but, he says, those who did go "were the best intellectually, the best morally...
...theater in this country. The best, or at least the most successful, of that generation of writers was Maxwell Anderson, whose Winterset (1935) is currently in performance at the Loeb. Anderson tried to work modern themes into the dramatic contexts of his plays without overwhelming the drama for the sake of the message. Sometimes it worked-as in High Tor, a delightful play about "progress" and a poltergeist-inhabited mountain overlooking the Hudson River...
...policy of armed intervention in Africa. "We must be reminded from time to time that keeping our own revolution alive does not mean just study and consolidation," says Jesús Sais, a statistics major at the University of Havana. "It also means struggle and sacrifice for the sake of other people's revolutions...
...regressive decision with regard to minority rights. Most seriously, the Court had the opportunity to rule unconstitutional any admissions or hiring program that takes cognizance of race or of cultural background. Such a decision would have effectively dismantled every existing affirmative action program in the nation, and for the sake of domestic tranquility it is fortunate they...
Finally, it seems clear that the Court, perhaps for the sake of certain legal technicalities, blinded itself to critical data. The decision to order Bakke's admission, for example, underlines this point. This ruling is tenable only on the basis of the initial trial record, which is unusually limited--the pre-arranged deposition of the dean of admissions at Davis furnished the sole testimony, in fact. All appellate courts, including the Supreme Court, must base any subsequent decisions on the trial record, although a justice may loosely draw on material from amici briefs. It would seem Powell chose to discount...