Word: resistive
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...time the play ends with a quote from The Waste Land, despite its near-irrelevance to what has come before, we are not surprised; the temptation to play with his literary knowledge, and stroke the audience by allowing it to recognize his references, is evidently too great to resist...
Back in Cambridge, I commented to my newly-legal roommate oh-so-politically-correctly about the wealth of "alcoholically-enabled" people we saw on our way to dinner. When we arrived at the restaurant, the hostess mentioned the enticing prospect of white peach margaritas. I couldn't resist. I had to play the game once more. I asked for a pitcher of said dreamy substance. "You all have ID, right?" she sighed boredly. "Yep," we said. And that was it. Soon, with that thrill that only the non-legal know, we too were alcoholically-enabled. Sorry, elementary school, you lost...
Saying "We are working very hard to strengthen the ability of the United States to resist acts of terror," President Clinton ordered far morestringent security measuresto be put in place at all federal buildings in Washington. In the last two days, bomb threats have been made in seven other cities. All international airports remain in a heightened state of alert. On Capitol Hill, Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde said he will toughen the Clinton administration's anti-terrorism bill to prevent members of terrorist organizations from entering the country. Clinton's proposed legislation would make terrorist acts within...
...mail, students are instantly diverted from all other school work to Windows '95. I have watched them--in controlled experiments behind mirrored glass, of course--"Winsurf" for hours. I am certain that even John Stafford, the HCS president who was quoted in the Crimson saying that he would resist installing Windows '95 until he completed some school work, is a convert...
...subject, constantly, to the temptation to further our own fortunes by taking advantage of others, and our ability to resist this temptation is the result of a lifetime of learning and experience. The most common arguments for acting honestly, such as "it's the right thing to do" and "do unto others..." seem trite, corny and often fall on deaf ears. Quite simply, when viewed by themselves these phrases seem no more than empty shells and offer no good reason why we should pass up $3,000 in exchange for a bit of rhetoric...