Word: jeezus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tries to make a personal contact with each of them through objects--commenting on their faces, their fingernails, anything to make them relate to him personally. Instead, they barrage him with the same stupid questions and cliches. He takes the offensive against the sweet vacuous interviewer from Chicago--"Jeezus, I'm going to have to look you up when I go to Chicago...
...GOOD PREACHER gives himself away by his voice. His days are long and his duties unending, and laymen hang on every sentence he utters, expecting a commandment, or at least some inspiration-in-epigram. Answering a phone call at 3 a.m. with a hoarse "Jeezus Kerist! This had better be mighty important" can quickly send his young career to its just reward. So whether praying, consoling, or simply asking directions, his tone must always be confident, yet humble; loving, yet fearing; omniscient, yet uninitiated...
Lord knows how a Harvard Square audience will react. If it gives King Kong a chance, it may become like the pre-teen who sat behind me muttering "Jeez, Jeezus, Jeezus" through the whole movie: embarrassed to be caught up in such corn, but drawn into the world of fantasy nevertheless...