Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NABOKOV THE NOVELIST has a special affinity with Gogol. They are both obsessed with words, with the curious and beautiful poetic possibilities of their languages. They both love a story for its own sake; they shy away from messages and morals. They twist the literary conventions. Above all, they challenge the imagination. Nabokov treats Gogol lovingly; it makes for a delightful and intelligent opening chapter...
...appearance sake, the lawmakers have kept their salaries relatively modest: $28,000 a year. The fat-in rich, deep veins-lies elsewhere. Each of the 40 senators and 80 assemblymen gets an addition al $50 a day tax free while the legislature's work is under way: an average of $12,000 apiece this year. Each lawmaker receives a monthly car allowance of $265 plus a gasoline credit card to use without limit. Many collect an extra $6 for custom car washes. There are other travel perquisites: many legislators traveled to Washington at state expense to lobby Congress...
because I mistrust history in gallon jugs whose purveyors are more concerned with establishing the meaning and purpose of history than with what happened. Is it necessary to insist on a purpose?... Why cannot history be studied and written and read for its own sake, as the record of human behavior, the most fascinating subject...
...javelin toss and dreaming of asserting a claim to the throne. Eurydike is the granddaughter of Philip II; her grandmother was an Illyrian warrior whom Philip wed to seal a peace treaty. Renault handles the matter discreetly: "The lady would not have been his choice for her own sake; she was comely, but he had trouble remembering which sex he was in bed with...
...around Babs people are crushed by cliches. Her husband, an adman, is worn down by the slogans of his profession, so cut off from reality that he longs to dismiss the product entirely: "A structuralist's dream--advertising for its own sake!" There is a psychological as well as social basis for Bab's paranoia: her mother, whom she locks in the closet and taunts with lines like. "I'm fucking the dog, Mom" comes out and announces. "Children were given to us by you-know-who so that we could make order out of our own lives...