Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...larger." Alarmed at seeing no effort to extinguish the fire, Blackwell called the mayor, who told him firemen were being held off out of fear they would be shot at by Move members. Fire Commissioner William Richmond at first accepted responsibility for holding his men off for safety's sake ("They are firemen, not infantrymen"), but Sambor later admitted that they delayed in the hope that the fire would destroy the bunker...
...past!" Fat chance. Such manifestos had already been part of the rubric of modernism -- or of a certain kind of modernism -- for the best part of half a century, since the Futurist Filippo Marinetti and the Dadaist Hugo Ball exhorted the young to burn their museums for the sake of the new age to come. And they led, on iron rails, to the museum itself...
...director showed rare brilliance, using modern techniques without making Hamlet innovative for innovation's sake. Andrew Sullivan (Hamlet) and Christopher Keyser (Claudius) presented new interpretations of their roles Anyone with an interest in theater, or an open mind, would have been able to appreciate the creativity and brilliance of the production. Relax, C.J. Freshman. Jenny Landan...
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...best, divestiture exemplifies the moral isolationism which American liberals have been practicing since Vietnam condemning others to misery for the sake of keeping there own hands clean. At worst, divestiture represents veiled support for violent resolution in South Africa, some of its proponents clearly hope that divestiture will depress the South African economy sufficiently to create a climate for revolution...