Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month later, while Charles was away, her sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale persuaded Diana to go to a country house ball in Leicestershire. The bachelors were too timid to ask her to dance. Exercising royal fiat, Diana grabbed one young man and said, "Come on, for goodness sake, let's dance." She did, until...
...sake of the playoffs," Wilson said, "Cabot-North (3-0) is first, Lowell is second, Eliot is third, and Winthrop is fourth...
...unfortunate that five months of CRR deliberations might have been rendered superfluous because the Law School Ad Board moved more swiftly. It is more unfortunate that Harvard's disciplinary system is structured such that objective decisions could, in theory, be compromised for consistency's sake...
...this is narrated with a "this is life" complacency that offers no conclusions. It is not even art-for-art's sake, but mundanity for the sake of... who knows? Impressions of community life in the small mining town--a carnival-like communion service where wafers are taken to accordion music, a songfest saluting beer, a fishing picnic where one woman asks June "have you ever seen a sucker?"--take on, for all their sociological insights, a grotesquely pointless irreality. Why suddenly does a marching band parade down Main Street? The impersonal curiosity with which these studies in "naturalism...
...campaign, Visions of America, has been serving as TIME's drama critic since last winter. "The theater," he says, "is often the quickest of the literary arts to respond to social and political trends. At least in smaller-scale productions, there is more room for art for passion's sake...