We were on the brow of the hill, and below us there was a whare roofed in with corrugated iron.

A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: Have you talked to the Man Upstairs? God is a friendly neighbor who dwells in the apartment just above. Call on him any time, especially if you are feeling a little blue.

There is also the bijou problemette (as my old chemistry teacher would say) that members of this consortium can't legitimately enter the quiz, since they wrote some of the questions.

In the Portuguese universities, the Marranos had studied logic, physics, medicine and mathematics, but they had no expertise in the more intuitive disciplines of Jewish practice.