Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elizabeth's mental hospital, where Pound had been held since the war as unfit to stand trial for treason. He writes to Hemingway, "What I saw made me sick and I made up my mind I wouldn't rest till he got out. Not only for his sake but for the good name of the country: after ten years it was beginning to look like persecution." For the next few years, MacLeish worked through his contacts in the Justice and State Departments and coordinated a successful joint request by Eliot, Hemingway, and Frost to drop the charges against Pound...
...pastimes of Western civilization and then underwent the spiritual transformation that turned him into a saint. The omission is a reasonable one, for to make a movie about this Gandhi might strain the medium or simply fail. Spiritual pilgramages are rarely short and allow little abbreviation for the sake of depiction. They are also difficult...
...take between characters and the faulty human personalities which normally pull a person into a good film. Orwell, writing about Gandhi after he was murdered, noted. "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human beings." These things, as Orwell...
...Republican whose grandfather was a two-term Governor of Massachusetts, McCall pushed through tough laws regulating land use and pollution. Both patrician and folksy, the former journalist could be blunt: in 1971, he shooed prospective residents away from the state with the exhortation: "Visit-but for heaven's sake, don't stay...
THERE WAS A GOVERNOR out West in the early '70s who made quite a name for himself with a campaign to dissuades any potential immigrants to his state. "Come and visit us again and again," he always said, "But for God's sake, don't come here to live...