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Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...
Jespersen was professor of English at the University of Copenhagen from 1893 to 1925, lectured at Columbia University. Bedoctored by both universities, as well as by Scotland's St. Andrews, France's University of Paris, he attached "no importance to these titles." Many a philological pilgrim came respectfully to his villa at Hamlet's Elsinore. For its articles on Language, Philology, Grammar, the Encyclopedia Britannica (see p. 48) turned to Jespersen. He left behind him more than a score of lively books in several tongues. His magnum opus: Modern English Grammar (4 vols...
...Pilgrim's Progress. He rode across the bloody sands of Egypt. He rolled through Matrûh, where Rommel's overturned guns and tanks lay like beetles on their backs in the African sun. He did not destroy Rommel there. Rommel with the fleeing fraction of his army escaped through Hellfire Pass, where a few New Zealanders routed his rear guard...
...dead with booby traps. He was off again, rolling under the Marble Arch on which was inscribed: "O beneficent sun, thou seest nothing greater than the City of Rome." At Wadi el Chebir wild camels and gazelles pranced across the dreary ditch-scarred land. At Wadi Zemzem the pilgrim drew himself...
Like the Confederacy's "Stonewall" Jackson and England's Cromwell, he is a devout man himself. Nightly he reads his Bible. He carries with him a copy of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress...