Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gratia artis, art for art's sake, was a centuries-old plea in Europe. No longer. On the Continent today, art, architecture and artisanship are aimed at luring the consumer in addition to rewarding the creator. Reaching out from their venerable tradition of studio work, European designers, handling new materials and technologies, are raising the quality of life...
...Unfortunately one has to point out that the traditional form of African art had a spiritual motivation, while the modern European art has a hedonists art for art's sake motivation," he said...
...time being, Mujib has retained his entire Cabinet. Most observers believe that he did so primarily for the sake of continuity and that major changes will come later. His toughest action is expected to be aimed at profiteers and hoarders, who have interfered with the flow of relief supplies from abroad. An estimated 30,000 people died of starvation after floods destroyed much of last year's rice and jute crops. The death toll could go much higher if this year's crops should also be ruined. Inflation is virtually out of control; rice has more than doubled...
Even if snags between Egypt and Israel can be worked out, however, Kissinger has still found no solution for the most serious obstacle to successful second-stage disengagement talks. The Sinai negotiations are inextricably tied to similar discussions over the Golan Heights. For the sake of Arab unity, Sadat cannot afford to get too far ahead of Syria, and the Israeli-Syria situation still seems hopelessly bogged down. Israel demands guarantees of border security, along with political recognition from Damascus, before it will hand back any more of the Golan Heights. Assad, so far, is unwilling to recognize Israel. Unless...
...course, on the edge of the technological abyss, nothing). Abe is a Nikon camera incarnate, and his transistorized prose--a mixture of journalese and clinical report--combines some of the worst elements of the simple Hesse, the technical Barth, the mundane Beckett, and the grotesque-for-the-sake-of-grotesqueness Barthelme. He is as throughly modern as Japan's prodigal-car, the high on fuel consumption and low on credit...