Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irony of Bruce's last years is that he went to court accused of spewing out, as he put it, "dirt for dirt's sake," but he packed into his act as much meaningful social comment as anyone has, then or since. Even though Bruce's assigned role in history is one of legitimizing and effectively legalizing the use of "dirt" onstage, he did not do it by walking onstage and calmly enunciating, "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker mother-fucker and tits...
When some students' admission to Ivy League schools was assured, there were fewer students applying to other area schools simply "for the sake of getting an admission ticket," Jewett said...
Influential American Jews eagerly accepted this version. Argues Chicago Businessman Gary Ratner: "It wasn't terrorism for terrorism's sake. They were trying to create a country, not destroy it." Critics were rebuffed. Among them is Rabbi Arnold Wolf, Jewish chaplain at Yale and national chairman of Breira, the movement that wants Israel to return to the Arabs all the territory conquered in the 1967 war except for Jerusalem. Asks Wolf: "Why can't I call him a right-wing fanatic? I think it's outrageous that American Jews are supposed to suppress their feelings...
...There are many things in life that are not fair"*-and perhaps he has come to recognize that one of those things may be his demand that Lance rid himself so precipitately of his stock holdings. The President's decision to relax his demand for Lance's sake undoubtedly aroused sympathy among Democrats on the committee. Besides, the gregarious Lance seems to have made a favorable impression on a great many Congressmen during his six months in Washington. Said a White House source: "If this had happened in January, Bert probably couldn't have survived...
...total indifference among the young. "They feel they had nothing to do with making the world the mess it is today, and they're also not going to do anything to make it any better-because they can't. They come to the music for the sake of the music, for entertainment, for getting...