Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similarly, the presentation of the chants themselves suffered in a secular context. The chants were sung in too straightforward a manner without enough lift and flow. They are such a personal expression that pushing them out for an audience's sake robs them of their delicate beauty. The chants were sung as well as could be expected in the circumstances...
...Eskimos, the Aleuts, the Tlingits and the Athabaskans incorporate rams' heads into their basket designs and polar bears into their pipes. When these people grace a carved ivory harpoon rest with two otters, it's not for the sake of design, but for their religion, that the two belong together...
Once upon a time there was talk of zorn in the old rabbit warren. A bunch of the young bucks got together and agreed (for Frith's sake!) that even if they became hlessil, they had to pull out-and right away...
...Like all the rest of us, T.S. Eliot was born in blood, sweat and tears; unlike most of us, he was born in St. Louis." Where the author is at the mercy of incomplete material he resorts to catchy phrases at the expense of coherence, and metaphors for the sake of metaphors. (On the subject of Pound, he gushes: "His critical tone is quite unself-conscious, at times even incautiously blurty; this tone buoys him up and carries him along swimmingly--until, late in his career, he founders in the shallow rapids of his baby talk.") As the book progresses...
...requires a feat of extraordinary mnemonic ability to recall the time when "art appreciation" connoted something other than people's tendency to push handmade objets deluxe to more and more expensive levels; when it meant the disinterested study and enjoyment of the human imagination for its own sake. Capital growth, once regarded as an occasional and peripheral reward of the collector's passion, has now become its chief-and in many cases its only-purpose. The "successful" work of art is the one that most rapidly becomes a medium of exchange, its meaning certified by bullion...