Word: jonahs
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...LOCAL press lately has been trumpeting the fact that Boston has been laying claim to more and more motion picture "world premieres" -a dubious distinction that sometimes is akin to being the first in your neighborhood to contract bubonic plague. Last fall, there was something called 80 Steps to Jonah , which starred Wayne Newton. Contrary to popular belief, it was not a remake of Moby Dick...
...character does have. The female lead, Susan Channing, as the Devil, superb actress she is, was so wonderfully bratty, saucy and puckish that it is hard to imagine what liberties she will take when she has fully mastered her part. Michael Dobbson clowns splendidly in a mime of Jonah and the whale--a mime set to cello music in a kind of Mayeresque Peter and the Wolf...
...King's death). The sermonette that CBS felt would have been considered "irreverent and offensive by a large segment of our audience" turned out to be rather mild, even in an Easter week following the Eisenhower funeral. Comedian David Steinberg's retelling of the story of Jonah was more in the vein of Mark Twain than Lenny Bruce. Jonah, in Steinberg's version, was swallowed by a giant guppy. Many clergymen appreciate Steinberg's mischievous Biblical homilies and he has often been invited to speak in churches and temples. "Because new types of humor seem foreign...
...This Jonah was no theoretician. He was, wrote old School Friend Cyril Connolly recently, "a political animal [who] could not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry." Though Orwell was a socialist, the metaphysical system underlying Marxian socialism meant nothing to him, and he had an empirical Englishman's distrust of other philosophical abstractions; to him, the existentialist Sartre was a windbag. But he also held an immense advantage over English intellectuals in politics who, by comparison, seem like dishonest children...
...your readers who boasts being above the 90th percentile in education and intelligence, says: "I still believe the Bible when it states that Jesus walked upon the water and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. No one has yet come up with any evidence to the contrary [April 5]." There is not a shred of evidence that the cow did not jump over the moon, or that Cinderella's coach was not turned into a pumpkin at midnight...