Word: sake
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ecological art-as apt a name as any -sounds eccentric, it is. But it is also demanding. Its practitioners sweat and swim, dig trenches, hack through ice, suffer desert winds or the muscle aches of long climbs-all for the sake of a few photographs and a memory. No one intent merely on economic security would go in for it, since it results in little that can be sold or even framed. But a considerable number of artists, some young, some not so young, have committed themselves to it. So, as Arthur Miller might say, attention must be paid...
Skyscraper design soon lost any pretense of art for man's sake, and bowed only to art for business' sake. But the Met's exhibit confidently denies the obvious. After reminding us, without the least touch of irony, that "Skyscrapers are acknowledged to be the most striking American innovation in architecture," the illuminated poster defends the style...
...higher areas before the huayco hit us. We had been terrified by the quake, and most of us were praying in the streets amid the wreckage of our city when we heard the infernal thunder of the huayco coming down from Huascarán. For God's sake, send us help. We have no medicine, no food. We have sent some men to one of the lakes for water; we are praying that they return today. All night the women have cried and prayed; some men were cursing, raising their fists to heaven...
Irritated that Harvard prefers to wallop Yale annually for the sake of tradition rather than meet Penn in a winner-take-all showdown at Syracuse, and bothered by the Crimson's unshakable nonchalance about a formally recognized national champion. Harvard's critics have expressed their discontent in such various methods as Whall's highly emotional pieces and the NCAA's decision to recognize the I.R.A. regatta as an officially-sanctioned national championship...
Harvard's Afro-American Studies program has not yet reached that level. But that many students in the department consider that its goal is clear. As one student said. "We're not in this for the sake of our pride, but for the sake of our people...