Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignore them as they make their way to the electoral junkheap. But for political writers one faces a different matter. Literature, even such a frequently-derided form as popular political fiction, is an art--and any pattern of mindless repetition, of going through the motions for their own sake, is bound to do violence to the art, to turn it into a game where some people lose out. Contemporary political fiction suffers from this affliction: many American writers have grown self-satisfied, and this persistent complacency has lent their works about as much novelty and excitement as a Harold Stassen...
...skiing definitely screws everything up," Rand said yesterday before jumping into some Chem 20 (Rand is by no means pre-med--he just likes science for science's sake). "There was one stretch when I didn't go to French for three weeks straight, and a few weeks ago I had to take a Chem 20 hourly at Middlebury, which didn't work. I flunked the hell...
...expect any success from such a conference? Nevertheless, I wish a conference that would solve problems, including Palestinian rights, would take place. When I see the invitation and agenda, I will make a decision. I don't want to go simply for the sake of being present. If there is a conference to solve the problem sincerely, I will be happy to participate. What I am seriously worried about is a theatrical conference convened just to keep the area busy, which will achieve nothing. Isn't it tragic that people wonder if the Palestinians, the people who have...
Well, I happen to know of about six or seven people out there who think my column isn't vomit, although I think it is vomit, but artistic vomit, and you don't cavil with artistic vomit. (Vomit for art's sake, you know...
...message, she is cheerfully unawed by her creation. Says she: "There's nothing new in Total Woman or Total Joy. A lot of self-help books say the same things, only in different ways." She is correspondingly dismayed at the criticism that she advocates tricks for the sake of getting husbands to provide "goodies." Says she: "The word I use for a wife is not subservient but submissive. One is involuntary. But if I do something because I want to, because it gives joy, I'm not being manipulative at all. It's a struggle to submit...