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...Science students already carry a heavy load of difficult courses. Tutorial would only tend to crowd their schedule more and tempt them to give up non-science courses or essential science and math courses outside their field...
...problem. He has been very careful in writing his frankly revealing lyrics, and yet his work indicates nothing more than a sort of flat competence, as though he were writing transitions for a long, long narrative poem. Even Mr. Berman's emotional first person poems have few lines which tempt the reader to stop and read them over again aloud. His persistent awkwardness in phrasing is well illustrated by the following passage from Song of a Traveller: Spring, which in Philadelphia is wild./Is not in Boston yet. Like a stubborn child/Who will not curtsey to the lady she thinks...
...smaller colleges with no research facilities with which to tempt scholars, "the only way to keep faculty members is to give them a sabbatical every third year...
...week later the friend's wife announces that she is pregnant, the hero is the fa ther, and they had better "bring it off" damn quick. An amateurish abortion at tempt fails. The husband twigs. His broth er and another big swaddie catch Arthur in the dark and wallop the living tabs off him. But a week later the young dog is out of bed again and rolling all over the parlor floor with that pretty little tuffey-apple he met in the bar. Will he marry her? Maybe. Will he stop fighting? "Ever see where not fighting gets...
...Might not the Holy Scripture itself reveal some needed light along this line? See 7 Corinthians 7:5-"Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency...