Word: tempter
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...four leading roles are Robert Keaghy as First Tempter; Bryant N. Halliday '49 as Third Tempter; Thayer David as Fourth Tempter; and Kilty as Archbishop...
...wrestling with the devil instead of the Lower Form, he prays nightly for help in his work ("God, make me fit to write"), seeks, in his historical research, a "timeless common humanity" to unite Greek ideals with the wearier 20th Century. What he finds, at first, is a modern tempter with a fat bankroll and a skinny conscience, who tries to bribe him away from his book...
...book is a series of admonitory letters from Screwtape, a fiendishly knowing member of Hell's "Lowerarchy," to his nephew Wormwood, a novice tempter who is grappling with the Enemy for one of his first souls. The irony with which Lewis catalogues all the trivia most likely to keep man from God has made Screwtape a modern classic. Samples...
...Gaulle feared that one side or the other of the divided world would try to utilize reborn Germany against the other. "[Germany] must be so placed that she may not become either tempter or tempted. If not, woe once more to the sons and daughters...
Since U.S. dairy cattle give down more than 100,000,000,000 pounds of milk a year, the U.S. has plenty of milk. But ice cream -childhood's caviar, poor man's pheasant, fat lady's tempter -has the demerit of needing sugar as well as milk. There was no sign last week, however, that ice-cream output would be seriously curtailed. It just won't be so fancy. Although some big, inventive ice-cream makers have been turning out a total of 28 flavors, ten seemed plenty...