Word: sakes
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Corot was lucky in having a modest private income--his parents were well-off dressmakers in Paris--and he did not need to labor constantly on the big machines that spelled success or failure at the Salons. So he could work on the studies for their own sake, and these, not the bigger works, entitle him to be seen as a true precursor of Impressionism. Many of his lithographs and etchings of landscape have the same vitality. Full of wind and weather, they show pleasure in the mark for its own sake--Corot was a terrific scribbler at his best...
Examine the politics of disconnection. The 1996 campaign has only hinted at the number of Americans who, disgruntled and disillusioned (even if self-pityingly so), have withdrawn into a passive-aggressive political mode: protest for its own sake. "We're gonna fight until hell freezes over," bellows Pat Buchanan, "and then we're gonna fight on the ice!" Disenchantment, whether idealistic or merely snarling, has produced a permanent American political out group (Buchananites, Perot voters and a much larger constituency of nonvoters) whose unhappiness erupts in periodic aneurysms and whose message to the political process is the passive aggressive...
...party," complained his sister and campaign chairman Bay. Swinging through South Dakota, Buchanan warned his fellow Republicans to hold their tongues. "Calm down; relax," he pleaded. "Don't say things you might regret later." Earlier that day he delivered the same message on the Today show. "For heaven's sake, stop the panicky name calling...
...learning in the University. The ideal Corporation member sees Harvard from this angle. We need to stop the rend of universities being run as businesses rather than as academic Institutions, the last bastion of a liberal arts education in this country. The scholar values learning for learning's sake, a goal which should be synonymous with the mission of the University...
...part, we said how much we liked Father of the Bride, Part II (we laughed, we cried, better than Cats), but in the way you can never really have interplanetary conversations, this wounded her. In her Annie Hall shrug you could sense echoes of Hillary Clinton--"For goodness' sake, you can't be an actress if you don't play a Happy Housewife once in a while." She left before we could say we laughed, we cried at Reds...