Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running a large risk of major hostilities....On foregin affairs, one can hypothesize four consequences of the no-first use doctrine if it was in fact embraced by the Reagan Administration, the probability of that being, I think, zero. Well, let's assume for the moment, for argument's sake, that they do. The four possibilities are: one...what Mike said, no difference. They make the statement, nothing happens, life goes on. Second possibility is presumably what the authors wanted: namely a kind of redirection toward strengthening our conventional forces in Europe...
...perception of education as a benefit primarily to society, rather than the student, drew the most violent objection from the CSA. Its letter criticizes Bok for failing "to stress the importance of maintaining equal educational access for all students" and accuses him of valuing education not "for its own sake, but because a diploma may make a person a more productive economic unit...
...what they actually accomplish is arcane and esoteric, very little pressure exists to emulate the scholars. You can tell work stories to friends and neighbors ("11 p.m. Friday night, and the Science Center library, it' full"), you can secretly admire them for caring about something for its own sake (sort of the same admiration that everyone accords a young man entering the priesthood), but they're not such a goad to the conscience as to win the rest of us away from the barrooms, the newspaper offices, the klieg lights, or the playing fields. So a huzza for them...
...figure in this potential stale mate is Archbishop Runcie. He is probably willing to risk more for the sake of unity than any of his predecessors. In an exclusive interview with TIME, Runcie stuck to his view that "the Roman Catholic Church is overcentralized" but pointed to the usefulness of the papacy as "a focus for unity and affection" that was "given to Rome from the days of the early church." He believes Rome "can give a great deal to us in terms of doctrinal coherence." Runcie said that his central problem is this: "The idea [that] you have...
...When they first asked me to do The Rake," says Russell, "my heart sank because I had this memory of the most boring evening of my life. I'm not interested in being different for its own sake, and the music in any opera is sacred to me. But if one is true to the spirit of a work, if you don't destroy that spirit, then you can do what you like...