Word: jeezus
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...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...
Sokolov: (repentant) Sorry, guys. But jeezus, I gotta leave...
...town into Main Street, an overnight literary sensation. Lewis was then 35, and Gracie thinks fame came too early. He and Gracie and their 3-year-old son Wells (named for H.G.) took ship for England and the captain of the Carmania asked them to sit at his table. "Jeezus!" cried Lewis in the very accents of Main Street. "There's something to this being a Famooser...
After a few more beers Vag thought the Officers Club bar looked like Morey's. He fondly remembered the night before a Harvard-Yale game when he and some classmates were thrown out for singing "Ten Thousand Men" too loudly. Jeezus, thought Vag, that was two years ago. Vag could see the Harvard's now, wandering about New Haven, trying to crash a St. Anthony's formal. Strange, mused Vag, how he and his friends had always been so friendly away from Cambridge and when in New Haven complained because the Elis were so cold and pompous. They didn...