Word: bejesus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ghost of Martin Dies is still alive and kicking the bejesus out of everybody who happens to be politically left of the Manchester Yacht Club. This regrettable fact has been proven twice already this week--both instances concerning higher education...
...book, set as if it were verse (and with all staging directions eliminated), Corwin adds many lines that the program had no time for, changes a few broadcasting bowdlerisms (bejeepers becomes beJesus). But what makes the scalp tighten when backed by sound effects and Bernard Herrmann's excellent score and eloquent silences frequently looks tinselly in type. The eye sometimes misses the dramatic moment that Corwin skillfully devises for the ear: the sounds of underwater sloshing, a metallic pounding on a sunken sub, to ask the men inside if they've heard the V-E news...
George Houston is a onetime teacher in Rochester's Eastman School of Music who is currently starred as a horse-opera hero in Pathé's serial The Lone Rider. ("Those horses bounce the bejesus out of me-I hate 'em.") But Houston has learned things in Hollywood. He takes grand operas in hand, revamps the stories, alters characters, rewords arias-and of course translates them into English. Rossini's The Barber of Seville, now in rehearsal, he telescoped from a three-and-a-half to a two-and-a-half-hour opera (including intermissions...
Sure-we tingle-and our great day will be that one when we smash the living bejesus out of the Japs...