Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Center for Research on Creative Altruism may tempt some to make light of Sorokin. But he was a scholar and an innovator, and his books will be studied by sociologists for many years...
This division was reflected at the Jerusalem conference, which was bitterly opposed by a minority of right-wing Orthodox Jews who foresaw it as an at tempt to water down Halaka. Israel's chief rabbis, who endorsed the conference, even received threatening messages-forcing the sessions to be held under police guard. While firmly denying any intention of diluting the law, conference leaders insisted on the need for further enhancing Orthodoxy's appeal to all Jewry. At the session's end, the delegates created a permanent committee to coordinate further Orthodox efforts to make tradition compatible with...
...White House simply refuses to offer any reasonable explanation for the steps it has taken to increase U.S. involvement in the war and tempt the Communist Chinese to intervene openly on the side of Hanoi. The latest escalation of the bombing, in fact, suggests that the U.S. wants to play brinkmanship games that John Foster Dulles only talked about...
...tabloid Sun-Times does not at tempt to carry as much news as the Trib, but what it does run is sharply written and attractively and conveniently presented. Directed at readers younger than the Trib's, the Sun-Times pro jects more of a personality, and Editor Emmett Dedmon's reporters are better known around town. The paper's onceover-lightly treatment of the news appeals to commuters riding buses into the city as well as to Chicago's growing Negro population. "The Sun-Times," says a onetime Chicago editor, "comes closest to being a successful...
...jobs a year. Reversing that trend has become Mayor John Lindsay's overriding concern. "It's a battle we must win," he says. "If we lose, we lose everything." In its desperation, New York has set up a Public Development Corporation, headed by General Lucius Clay, to tempt industry by assembling sites. Adopting a controversial scheme that began in the South, the corporation also plans to finance some plants with tax-exempt bonds...