Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dairy Queen with Best Pal Duane Hoobing or reading at the library. "He was good-looking and could have been very popular," says Hoobing, who teaches citizenship at a junior high school not far from Ottawa, "but he wouldn't pursue popularity for its own sake." He was clearly in hot pursuit of something. He tried four sports, acted, edited the paper, played drums in the band and participated in student politics. "Gary was always worried that at the end of his life he might not have made a contribution," Hoobing says...
...only conclude that his real interest is in censorship for its own sake--or, rather, in the expectation that he will be one of the censors. Nor does he hesitate to exercise the office of censor before he has ever been nominated, castigating Prof. Womack for "speaking less than objectively." Is such a remark consistent with a call for the free "interplay of ideas"? It seems not, for in order to pronounce this condemnation Mr. Lagon must believe that his own political views are in some sense "objective." But if he thinks he already knows the objective truth, what interest...
High bidders at the American Repertory theatre's (ART) first celebrity auction last night. "Art for ART's sake," walked away with everything from a tennis date with columnist Art Buchwald to a cruise on the Queen Elizabeth...
...guts of teaching are how we feel about our students. If we can teach for their sakes, as well as for the sake of our own intellectual journey, then our profession can become what it should be: generous, life-enhancing, perenially satisfying...
...most part, collecting for the museums is selective Professors and graduate students bring back specimens from their work and the curator chooses from these samples. But the museum no longer engages in the large-scale collecting for the sake of collecting expeditions that it once...