Word: resister
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Giselle, a young girl with a weak heart, has two flaws that ultimately overstrain her fragile organ. She can neither resist dancing nor the attentions of Count Albrecht, a nobleman disguised in peasant garb. While her insistence on dancing threatens her health, Giselle is finally overcome after learning her lover's true identity. As it turns out, he is not only a count, but he is betrothed to another woman. Appropriately, Giselle goes mad and dies of a broken heart...
Left alone with the real Baron, Maria commends his manifest education. "I go to movies twice a week," the Baron responds. How to resist a gentleman's advances without offending, Maria asks the real Baron, presumably her equal. Responds Baron Manners: "Say, 'Not so impetuous, Baron. Not before supper, later.'" Left equally confused by the presents of the class which he has so suddenly affected, Gaston asks for romantic counsel as well. Once again, Baron Manners: "Tell her, 'You are the one to whom I belong body and soul,' and remember 'After supper, it is easier to discuss with...
...took turns on a spring-loaded seat over a 400-gal. vat of chocolate syrup, while a bevy of young girls lobbed baseballs at the target for $3 a pop. After three splashdowns each in the high-calorie goo, the men were just too delicious for the girls to resist. Recalls Thomas: "They licked the chocolate off my hairy chest." For their lickerish female admirers, the idea of having a hunk of chocolate will never be the same...
...strongly favor divestment. I respect their convictions, I hope that they will respect mine. It is never a pleasant task to disagree with others who care deeply about injustice. In the case of South Africa, the injustice is so monstrous that the heart aches for some opportunity to resist effectively. Nevertheless, such feelings cannot bring me to support a course of action that would force this University to deviate from its proper role, jeopardize its independence, and risk its resources in behalf of a dubious strategy that has no realistic prospect of success. As a result, having thought about...
...article on Afghanistan [WORLD, Sept. 10] corroborates the view that continued resistance by Afghan freedom fighters can only lead to genocide. The U.S.S.R. will not back off until Afghanistan is subdued. Meanwhile, the U.S. goads the Afghans to resist, resulting in the destruction of the land and its people. The way out of this situation is to negotiate a truce. It is sad but true that "it is better to be Red than dead...