helping, tempt, job temping, tempter, side-helping. Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA

Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA

A bounteous and playful survey of the 87-year-old artist’s career on the vanguard highway fills the museum and the Drawing Center.

Joan Jonas’s “Reanimation,” a video-sculpture installation that mixes arctic landscapes, folk tales, music and hanging glass, at MoMA.Credit...Clark Hodgin for The New York Times

Temping is on the increase, affecting temps and staff workers alike http://econ.st/2ce9F63

In America, expressions of patriotism come with a side-helping of nachos and bombast. One British ex-pat can’t decide whether he finds it irritating or admirable.

From 1843 Magazine

An Englishman’s love-hate relationship with American patriotism

The bounteous amplitude of American flag-waving: both cloying and enviable

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The Screwtape Letters is a work of Christian satire by C. S. Lewis first published in book form in 1942. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior tempter named Wormwood, so as to advise him on methods of securing the damnation of an earthly man, known only as "the Patient."


The Vatican tempts the YouTube generation
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The Vatican this Friday will announce details of a partnership with Google to launch the Holy See's own YouTube channel. According to The Telegraph, ...

temp¹

tɛmp/

informal

verb

gerund or present participle: temping

1. work as a temporary employee.

   "Suzanne was temping as a secretary"

tempt
(tĕmpt)
v., tempt·ed, tempt·ing, tempts. v.tr.

1. To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.
2. To be inviting or attractive to: A second helping tempted me. We refused the offer even though it tempted us. See synonyms at lure.
3. To provoke or to risk provoking: Don't tempt fate.
4. To cause to be strongly disposed: He was tempted to walk out.

v.intr.
To be attractive or inviting: a meal that tempts.

[Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter, from Latin temptāre, to feel, try.]

helping 

Pronunciation: /ˈhɛlpɪŋ/ 

NOUN

1A portion of food served to one person at one time:there will be enough for six helpings

More example sentencesSynonyms

1.1A quantity of something:it’s a powerful ballad tinged with a huge helping of gospel vibes

temp Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL
a person employed to work for a short period, especially in an office while another person is absent or when there is extra work

temp
verb [I] INFORMAL
I decided to temp for a while so that I could try different kinds of jobs.tempter
n.
One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. «Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on.» Tillotson.

So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned.

Milton.

新聞:歐盟重視臨時工作者權益
EU focus on job temping

EU Employment Commissioner Vladimir Spidla has called for better conditions for temporary workers, especially in Germany. He's told the newspaper "Die Welt" that temps assigned for six weeks or more should get the same pay, social and health safguards, and training opportunities as salaried colleagues.


-->Spidla says the EU plans to draw up regulations by late this year. German DGB trade union federation chairman Michael Sommer has welcomed the move, saying Europe must tackle the issue of unequal pay. Spidla accuses firms in Europe, including some in Germany, of usingjob temping to lay off salaried staff and save costs.