Word: thees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before you can get up on stage and sing "Midnight Train" and Manhattan Transfer arrangements with the Opportunes you have to survive three call backs. The first requirement is a basic proficiency at sight-reading "My Country 'tis of Thee" along with singing sequences of five or six notes at "strange" intervals to test the ears, according to Director Wayne C. Johnson...
...Merle Haggard into the tapedeck, pound your fist and sing along: "Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry. Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to wed thee." For some reason you start thinking about your girlfriend's neck. You've been singing along, having a good ole time, then you start to cry just thinking about your girlfriend's neck. "Her neck," you sob, flipping on the wipers. "Oh, man! I miss her...lousy...n-neck...
...chief blame rests with D'Aquila, whose mannish, histrionic performance never musters an ounce of sympathy. Her love affair with Alsemero (Harry S. Murphy) is discarded too early; and she changes into an evil murderess with only the slightest provocation, gushing at one point, "I am forced to love thee now for thou provides so well for mine honor...
First Novelist Goodman fictionalizes this authentic American romance from its heady undergraduate days to the mournful playing of Nearer, My God, to Thee in a rainy French graveyard. In the process he anatomizes the fatal innocence that accepted the conflict over there as an extension of the field and the rink. Goodman's debt to The Great Gatsby is manifest: his narrator, Jeb Runcible, regards his classmate much as Nick Carraway viewed Jay Gatsby. But the author's voice is his own, and as Jeb becomes progressively disenchanted, the golden pilot goes into a nose dive, changing from superhero...
...death diminishes me." It has always sounded excessive. John Donne expressed that thought more than 350 years ago in a world without mass communications, where a person's death was signaled by a church bell. "It tolls for thee," he said. Does it really? Logic would suggest that an individual's death would not diminish but rather enhance everybody's life, since the more who die off, the more space and materials there will be for those who remain. Before his conversion, Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge...