Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should "own" his writing the same way he owns his typewriter. It leaves copyright as a weak property right, an ugly stop-sister to the better accepted property interests in land and capital. By this standard, literature strikes us as something public which we have 'privatized' merely for the sake of economic incentive...
...frighten susceptible readers than seduce them: "Practically M. Flaubert is a potent moralist; whether, when he wrote his book, he was so theoretically is a matter best known to himself." But Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal provoked an attack on both the theorists of art for art's sake and the poet: "He went in search of corruption, and the ill-conditioned jade proved a thankless muse...
...heart of the center's program is a series of eight afternoon seminars with titles like "The Samurai Spirit in Business Strategy" and "The Concentration Power of Zen in Business." For $60 a session, executives learn everything from how to drink green tea (slowly, unlike sake, which is downed in a gulp) to where to sit during a conference (not in the first seats offered) and when and where to take off one's shoes. The students are taught go, a traditional Japanese board game, and are introduced to the psychology behind sumo wrestling. The sessions, which combine lectures...
...many members of Congress, the balloon seems filled with lead. They are loath to brave the wrath of the many constituents who would be hurt by the plan for the sake of a reform that does nothing to shrink the shockingly menacing deficit. Many would prefer to use tax reform as sugarcoating for a net tax increase, but that approach would clash head on with Reagan's diehard opposition to any overall tax boost. Consequently, Robert Dole, newly elected majority leader of the Republican-controlled Senate (see following story), gently told the White House that Congress would probably give...
...mock heroic tone continues throughout the book, part and parcel of the authors' admitted bias against the forces of evil that pursued the war in Vietnam. The good guys and the bad guys are labeled by name on every page. And for clarity's sake, there is no one in between (though a few people, like Robert MacNamara, are able in switch sides...