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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much involved in the fate of the show that you just push and push and before you know it, you're in this crazy realm where you're really acting. Acting is in that empyrean when it's that good. It's totally religious--it's for the sake of something bigger...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Hedgehogness That Beats on the Brain | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...persuade government on the one hand that private universities deserve extensive funding because they contribute to the public interest; and on the other that government has proved too excessive in its regulatory requirements. In "The Apocalyptic Style," he urges Yale freshmen to pursue a liberal education for its own sake, warning against a "retreat into self-interest"--a not-so-thinly veiled reference to growing pre-professionalism. He says in the book's first essay. "The Private University and the Public Interest," that "the purpose of education, as opposed to information, is to lead us to some sense of citizenship...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Giamatti's Morals and the Majority | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

After the production of Antigone earlier this spring, there were high hopes that this version of Hair might be done with real power, raising ethical questions in a strikingly new way for a sometimes stodgy forum. But the very real issues that arise are quickly forgotten for the sake of a story line that evokes nothing so much as a rerun of the 1960s Monkees T.V. show...

Author: By John KENT Walker, | Title: Snippets of Hair | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

Though delighted with his unusual expert, he concedes, "I worry about Gibbs sometimes. I don't want to kill him for the sake of a client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: He Wrecks to Win | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...that's the way I've always thought about men," Fenwick shot back. "I just hope for your sake that you haven't been disappointed as often as I have...

Author: By Sandra E. Cavasos, | Title: Millicent Fenwick: Not So Modern Any More | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

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