Word: sakes
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What is particularly ludicrous, however, is that we are asked to make this sacrifice for the sake of tradition. Just as the University has seen fit to abolish other anachronistic traditions which intrude on the life styles of its students (like coat and tie rules, mandatory chapel, and single-sex dormitories--traditions which are probably even older than the bells), it should cease the preposterous practice of waking people up at 8:40 a.m. for no reason...
Enter the winner, and hero, of Maccoby's book The Gamesman (285 pages; $8.95), published last week by Simon & Schuster. The gamesman loves glory and winning-not for the sake of wealth or power (though he may acquire both) but for the sheer joy of victory. He detests losing. Maccoby, 43, isolated the type after six years of Rorschach tests, dream analysis and interviews with 250 managers (4% of them women) at twelve elite U.S. companies. As Maccoby's interviews, conducted for the Harvard Project on Technology, Work and Character, took him higher into corporate structures, he found...
...SAKE of those of us with less prior exposure to Cavafy, the authoritativeness hailed by Keeley is occasionally supplanted by enlightening as well as entertaining sketches of the poet. Liddell's chapter on "Reading and Working Life" is considerably enlivened by the reminiscences of a colleague in Alexandria's Irrigation Office, where Cavafy worked for years. The co-worker remembers...
...Christian duty." The Methodists (2.1 million) have also announced plans to integrate their four schools. The powerful Dutch Reformed Church (3.5 million) remains strongly segregationist, however. The churches that are moving toward integration have won voluble backing in the more liberal newspapers. "For God's sake leave them alone!" trumpeted one, Johannesburg's Sunday Express...
Zivkovic intends to make other changes in Harvard's fencing program. "It seems to me that nothing has been done in the past about recruiting," he says. "For the sake of the school, the sport, and for the fencers here, I want to attract great fencers from American high schools and from other countries. I would go to the top of the moon to attract good fencers...