Word: unlikelihoods
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There are numberless other inaccuracies in Mr. Reed's Profile, a few of which are the reference to Mr. Finley's white hair (which retains its usual youthful color), the diminished attendance in Humanities 2 (simply false), and the ungrammatical Latin attributed with great unlikelihood to a former student of Norden and Wilamowitz (I pass over the vulgar reply). These allegations need no refutation, but they do seem inappropriate in the year when Eliot House, as now a nationwide community, is celebrating Professor Finley's 25th anniversary as Master...
...understand all this concern about the feasibility of freezing bodies. The unlikelihood of resuscitating a refrigerated body is irrelevant to the philosophy of cryobiology. The only relevant question is whether or not cryobiology is marketable...
...ethereal unlikelihood of Band of Angels is heightened by its lunar dialogue. A pixilated slave woman shrills: "Sodjahs acomin' down fum de Nohf, sodjahs atotin' freedumb, adrippin' it lahk sweyet on a hot day!'' She also gives Yvonne some hot-day advice on how to enslave Gable: "Tease him lahk a cayetfish aswimmin' 'roun' a wuhm! Yukky-yuk! Wait'll he git itchy...
...hero and heroine participate in a series of love scenes which are pretty much the limit in cowboy-jungle romance. They are also not very brief. The Tarzan type, Teodoro, comes out with some dialogue which, even in Portuguese, cannot fail to win this year's U.T. Award for Unlikelihood. The man protests that "his blood is mingled with the earth" and that earth and woman are the same thing ergo he cannot possibly marry the heroine. The argument is somewhat unconvincing, but one can't blame him--a woman was never made of colder marble...
...inclusive cost of the tour will be from $40 to $45. Unmentioned in the tourist plans was the fact that all U. S., French, British passports are stamped NOT VALID FOR SPAIN, also the unlikelihood that none-too-friendly France would permit mere tourists to cross her borders to Rightist Spain. But where France might prove stubborn on this score, friendly pro-Fascist Portugal might well prove amenable...