Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figures called kouroi ("youths") that in the 6th century became the chief expression of the Greek belief in the human figure as the earthly signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function as temple statues and grave markers taking second place to the opportunity they offered the sculptor to reach ever closer to ideal form...
Chen says she harbors no great desire to introduce into her performance novelty for novelty's sake. "I wouldn't do anything drastically new with it, because I'm not a well-known artist and it wouldn't be acceptable," she says...
...great universities is a more insidiousism, aristocratism. Like it or not, universities are at some level credential factories. They serve as a springboard for middle and lower-class individuals not only to live with and befriend those of the privileged classes--which is at least as important for the sake of the latter--but also to join them, eventually, in running this country...
Doctors who specialize in treating old people delight in telling the story of a 90-year-old man named Morris who has a complaint about his left knee. Says his exasperated physician: "For heaven's sake, at your age what do you expect?" Rejoins Morris feistily: "Now look here, Doc, my right knee is also 90, and it doesn't hurt." It is an apocryphal tale with a pointed message. As long as anyone can remember, old age and disability have been paired as naturally and inevitably as the horse and carriage or death and taxes. After all, advancing years...
Attempting to put a better face on the army's mission, Rabin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that there was no policy of "beating for beating's sake." Force was to be used, he said, only "against those acting violently." But Major General Amram Mitzna, the central front commander, admitted in a press conference that the "soldiers are not behaving as well as we had wished" and that "no more than a few" had been court-martialed for using excess force against the Palestinians. He added, somewhat apologetically, "It is confusing, not the policy and the orders...