Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ginsberg: My main interest was art for art's sake, purely literary. But literary means a lot of different things. There is an old saying by Plato or Pythagoras, "when the mode of the music changes the walls of the city shake." Or, what [William Carlos] Williams said, "the new world is only a new mind." Or, Blake: "the eye altering, alters all." When there is a new perception in poetry and a change of the form, it generally means a change of body rhythm, a change in thinking about language, and a change in consciousness itself. And this...
...stands. Are undergraduates supportive of the existing procedure governed the principle of first choice maximazation or are they ready for the introduction of a more radical, random lottery that assigns students to Houses regardless of preference? While strong arguments can be made or a random lottery for equality's sake, we believe such a method would damage, if not ruin, the spirit of community the Houses system was originally intended to foster...
...Faculty Council is not trying to reduce the member of honors degrees awarded for numbers' sake, but rather has set out to simplify and make more fair the honors system, Knoll explained...
...third round of discussions before the March elections. At a press conference in San Salvador last Thursday, however, Duarte rejected what he called the "tactical dialogue" that the guerrillas are using "to seek publicity." At the same time, he insisted that he is "disposed to do anything for the sake of peace in Central America...
...delegation managed for once to paper over its own splits. State Department moderates and Pentagon hawks remain divided over what compromises, if any, to offer when hard bargaining begins. But in Geneva they cooperated in drafting position papers, cables to Washington and communique language even though, for the sake of secure communications with the White House, they were jammed together elbow to elbow in a small plastic bubble specially set up inside the U.S. mission...