Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invited dinner guest keeps insisting "Define your terms!" His characters are appealing--when they aren't incensed suicides--no matter how Hare intends otherwise. Some stern beliefs guide his vision and Hare doesn't care to disguise them--like the perhaps blind faith in education for its own sake and the fact that, as Jean states so simply, "Life is dangerous...And sometimes there's nothing you can do." In much of his writing, Hare catches and ponders all the disturbing signs, the unfocused anger of English life. But thankfully he doesn't really try to explain the enigma...
...This greatly disturbs the Chinese Communist leaders. Therefore they spare no effort in using all kinds of plots trying to confuse the China question with a so-called Taiwan question. An early reunification of China is the common wish of all Chinese. However, we shall never, just for the sake of reunification, deprive the people on the mainland of their hope to strive for a free and democratic life. Our position is unequivocal: as long as the Chinese Communists impose the Communist system on our people in the mainland, there is no possibility for the two sides to negotiate...
...years, they all kept getting better. "We wrote cartoons for grownups, that was the secret," said Jones' ace story man Michael Maltese in a 1971 interview. And they could behave "almost like children, making absolute idiots of ourselves. An outsider would see us and say, 'Well, for heaven's sake! Grown men!' But we understood...
...conduct in various regions of the world, and support to those who in effect engage in terrorism, and about violations of human rights in America itself, as well as in many countries close to it. But here is what I am thinking about: Is it worthwhile for the sake of that to set up a summit meeting? Abusive words are no help in a good cause...
...folk confront mainstream America with beer and trembling. They are still wagging their heads and clucking their tongues over Father Emil's summer replacement. Golfing Father Frank proclaims of his martini at a backyard party, "Dry. Mmmmm. What did you do? Just think about vermouth, for Christ's sake...