Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Darrach's more startling disclosures is that Fischer, assured of a $125,000 purse and still demanding more, inexplicably and in all seriousness asked Darrach to help him draft a letter to Spassky proposing that "we both give up all the prize money and play for the sake of chess...
...perhaps, at liberty to reveal that Harvard defeated MIT, and maybe Columbia. Beating them seems to be a tradition of sorts around here. But for God's sake don't reveal that the Crimson booters tied the University of Connecticut 1-1 and defeated Cornell...
...wear renters in happy collusion this week. Tuesday night, the Fogg Museum presented its latest original exhibit--investigating the works of 19th century architect H. H. Richardson. Richardson, who created Sever and Austin Halls among other masterpieces, was very cooperative in leaving his old blueprints lying around for the sake of posterity. They are very handsomely exhibited here, with early pictures of the buildings and Richardson's writing. A sneak preview of the show last Sunday proved fascinating. Now, with the finishing touches added, it should be outstanding...
...writer's memoirs, an "oblique autobiography," although at times the mask slips and we find ourselves looking over the narrator's shoulder at his memoirs-in-progress: "I was eighteen when the Bolshevist revolution struck--a strong and anomalous verb, I concede, used here solely for the sake of narrative rhythm." Sometimes, indeed, the effect is rather witty...
Whether rich nations will in fact make short-term sacrifices for the sake of long-term gains is debatable. Certainly, the traditional response has been for every country to try to maximize its own immediate wellbeing, and the devil take the hindmost. But the Club of Rome insists that altruism is possible if seen not as charity but as necessity. The alternative, it repeats over and over again, is mankind's lemming-like rush toward disaster...