Word: temptingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atlantis, the Lost Continent (Galaxy; M-G-M), is a mythical, mid-Atlantic kingdom that, according to Plato, existed 115 centuries ago. before it rolled over and sank to the bottom of the sea. The legend lived on to tempt some 25,000 novelists, historians and playwrights to mention it or conjecture about it; but Hollywood has strangely looked the other way. Now much-Oscared George Pal, the cinema's ace conjurer of cosmic cataclysm (War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide), has re-created this crazy continent, given it a colossal blood bath and sunk it again...
...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...