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...GOETH Portland...
Midnight Birds. With all her success, Julie is now facing up to the inevitable cliché that infects married couples who get deeply involved in their separate professions: Whither goest who? The answer is that Walton goeth to London, Julie to Hollywood. The result is that they are separated by more than an ocean and a continent. At one point, they corresponded on tape. "Every day, out went the tapes," says Tony. "Julie saying how frightened she was of acting, how unreal the whole thing was. But we got too good at the tapes and a bit too tricky. Every...
...also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose...
Though the Cantabrigians-six men and a girl-keep their eyes on the oddball, they also have a wayward way with words. Sounding like the BBC, B.C., a newscaster announces unctuously, "Here beginneth the first verse of the news," goeth on to report the latest Old Testament news flashes. Sports items include a heavyweight bout: "At the weigh-in for the big fight tomorrow, Goliath tipped the scales this evening at 15 stone 3 lbs. and David at 14 stone 3 lbs. David's manager said this evening, 'the odd stone could make all the difference...
Asked to complete familiar quotations, 63% of the kids flunked Isaiah's "They shall beat their swords into plowshares," 79% flunked "Many are called, but few are chosen," 84% flunked "The truth shall make you free," 84% flunked "A soft answer turneth away wrath," 88% flunked "Pride goeth before a fall," and a full 93% flunked "The love of money is the root of all evil." Going beyond quiz questions, Warshaw found students missing the whole Biblical point of secular literature-for example, the implication of the final scene in Hemingway...