Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...railroad workers. His administration has not been smooth. But what Mr. Truman stands for in the way of domestic institutions, and what he has stood for ever since he entered the White House, are measures of greater importance to the prosperity of the nation than efficiency for efficiency's sake...
...political and not a moral act. But it is a myth that in this election one can have political impact only by voting for Humphrey. Nixon or Wallace and it is a myth that by refusing to support one of them, a voter is sacrificing political influence for the sake of a clear conscience...
Edna Mae (Ellen Burstyn) is a faith healer without an orthodox faith. Though the deaf and the halt are cured at her touch, she is no manic Holy Roller, no snake-shaking spellbinder invoking God's immediate intervention for the sake of a fatter collection plate. She is a sensible Kansas widow, retrieved from a brush with death, who restores health "in the name of love." Love is all she wants to give to the two men in her life: her stern pa (Roberts Blossom), who responds to her proffered caress both as a seduction and a slap...
Another new cost-cutting innovation sweeping the country is the California-inspired "great room," a substitute for both the living room and the family room. For privacy's sake, living rooms traditionally are cut off from other rooms in a house by a hallway, staircase or dining room. The great room, however, opens directly onto every other room in the house. This saves the construction cost of building a hallway. Says Daniel W. Miller, an Orlando, Fla., real estate consultant: "Hallways are the result of lazy architects, and the days of the formal living room and dining room...
...sought out John Merrick to study his deformities and to present him to a conference of physicians as "the most perverted and degraded form of a human being" he has ever seen. Because Merrick will only grunt and growl, Treves takes him for an imbecile: "For his own sake, I pray to God he's an idiot." But the doctor soon discovers that his specimen is not only intelligent, but well-read and inquisitive, a sensitive young man painfully aware of his condition. Refusing to return him to his sideshow master, Treves sets out to educate the incurable Elephant...