Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue is simply that if the U. N. is going to hypocritically defy the good instincts upon which it was founded, it should at least keep things quietly confined to the plushly upholstered assembly rooms upstairs, the ones that you have to be over 14 to enter. For the sake of the noble ideals of international cooperation and world peace on which they were founded, let them at least spare the fifth graders and keep the political one-sidedness out of the visitors' lobby...
...proscribe an unauthorized but accurate biography. Thanks to the First Amendment, docudrama writers are probably entitled to invent some plausible dialogue and embellish events a bit. But at some point that free speech protection runs out. Says University of Michigan Law Professor Vincent Blasi: "When you dramatize for the sake of making her life more interesting than it is, then the courts are more likely to say you've gone...
...MORE also offers Rooney at his best. He presents prosaic subjects not only for their own sake--"where did [Manhattan's] Fourth Avenue go?"--but also because they serve as a foundation on which he constructs amusing and developed discussions. He hates weathermen, as he describes their typical broadcast. "There's ice on the roads today and many of the roads are slippery, listeners, so please drive carefully,'" Rooney wonders. "Does he think we're idiots? Does he think we don't know ice is slippery'" Horoscopes receive a similar treatment. "Cancer: This is a good time for those...
...upcoming change which Murphy feels may infuse the magazine with more day-to-day relevance is a renewed emphasis on non-fiction. Although it began as a forum for student opinion and debate, the Advocate has over the years moved increasingly towards a "pure art for art's sake" approach. In "First Flowering. The Best of the Harvard Advocate," editor Edward Smoley describes the gradual withdrawal from issues of university-wide relevance that post-World War II board members effected. "The Advocate editors were becoming a literary clique, the magazine their house organ. They showed little interest in student affairs...
...training bill. Whether such efforts can offset the Democratic wailing about widespread unemployment remains to be seen. Indeed, the election shapes up as one in which citizens face a tormenting question: whether to "stay the course" with policies that ask them to suffer high unemployment today for the sake of a so far unfulfilled promise of future healthy growth, or to vote for an alternative that no Democrat has yet made very clear. -By George J. Church. Reported by Douglas Brew and John F. Stacks/ Washington...