What is the song about? An American woman is explaining to her boyfriend that she loves him but when she travels she is unfaithful.
The idiom, 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do' means that when you visit a different place or culture, you must try to follow their customs and practices.
When
in Rome, music by Cy
Coleman, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.
When
on foreign shores I am Very truly yours I am But if inclined to
play I am Sweetheart that's the way I am
When in Spain for
reasons I don't explain I remain enjoying a brew Don't deplore
my fondness for Fundador You know how a Fundador can lead to a
few And baby when in Rome
I
do as the Romans do
If
per chance I'm saying farewell to France And romance drops in from
the blue Cherchez l'amour
I
beg of you please endure My taking a brief detour with somebody
new It's just that when in Rome I do as the Romans do
And
though from Italy I lie to you prettily Oh don't think of me
bitterly But know that I'm true Except now and then in Rome I
get that old yen in Rome And naturally when in Rome I do as the
Romans do
E molto difficile resistere agli uomini di
Italia Per esempio, per esempio I biondi, I biondi di Firenze,
di Venezia E I bruni di Palermo, di Milano
You know what I
mean?
If
I write happily Best wishes from Napoli Don't cable me
snappily To tell me we're through 'Cause I'm once again in
Rome In somebody's den in Rome Well honey bunch when in Rome I
do as the Romans do
So
just disregard the signs and the omens When in Rome I do as the
Romans do
Veni. Vidi. Vincie?*
*This
is a play on words. It should be 'Veni, vidi, vici.' Vincie is the
diminutive of the man's name, Vince or Vincent.
Today I am in Washington. I had the
honour* last night to receive the Atlantic Council's Distinguished
Leadership Award for my work to strengthen and promote the
transatlantic bond. It was truly inspiring to join Hillary Clinton
and so many others who share a commitment to the vital link between
Europe and North America. I spoke about the need to strike what I
call a new transatlantic deal. Because I firmly believe that in a
world where we are all connected, the transatlantic relationship
remains the most important relationship we have. Today, Europe and
North America face a key challenge: how to protect our shared values
across the globe, and to shape the global agenda in line with those
values. So we need to do more with each other, not less. To come
closer, not drift apart. And to turn outwards, not inwards. To do
this, we need a new transatlantic deal. A deal that makes our
community of values stronger, wider and deeper. We need stronger
political, economic and cultural ties. We need wider engagement with
the rest of the world and we need deeper security cooperation. A new
transatlantic deal is the best way to preserve our freedom, to
increase our prosperity, and to safeguard our values for generations
to come. Some thirty years ago, I visited the United States and got
to know many families, colleagues and institutions. I started on the
path that led me here today. I would like to see more young people
have the same opportunity to cross the Atlantic because our personal
connections and experiences will continue to nourish the vital bond
between America and Europe.
Vinnie Falcone takes the baton now to
conduct one of the most exciting pieces of music of all my years.
This Don Costa arrangement of the Fred Ebb, John Kander love song to
the city that never sleeps and the ball team that lost.
Start spreading the news
I'm
leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York
These vagabond shoes
They are longing to stray
Right
through the very heart of it
New York, New York
I want to
wake up in the city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of
the hill
Top of the heap
My small town blues
They are
melting away
I will make a brand new start of it
In old New
York
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's
up to you
New York, New York
In New York, New York
I want to wake up in a city
That
doesn't sleep
And find that I'm number one
Top of the list
Head of the heap
King of the hill
These little town blues
They're all
melting away
I'm gonna make a brand new start of it
Back in
old New York
And if I can make it there
I know, I'll
make it just about anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York
New York
Questions and answers:
Q. What does the line 'start spreading the news' mean?
A. Begin telling people. Q. What does the line 'these vagabond shoes' mean?
A. The person wearing these shoes does not like to stay in one city or town very long. Q. What does the line 'longing to stray' mean?
A. Wanting to leave.* Q. What do the lines 'little town blues' and 'small town blues' mean?
A. Sadness about being in a small town, probably because there is not much to do and no opportunity. Q. What does the line 'melting away' mean?
A. Disappearing. Q. What does the line 'if I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere' mean?
A. If I can become a success in that place, I will be able to to be successful anyplace. Q. What does the line 'it's up to you' mean?
A. The decision is yours. Q. What is the story the song is telling?
A. The song is about a person from a small town who is moving to New York. The person is very happy about moving there, because New York is very different from a small town – New York is an exciting city with lots of opportunity for success.
True / False: A. T B. T C. F D. F E. T F. F G. T Vocabulary Exercise: 1. infidelityB. unfaithfulness 2. shelved C. deferred 3. issued E. released 4. suitable D. appropriate 5. out sold F. sold more than 6. usurped A. displaced 7. to have no clue G. to be unaware
Lyrics to the Marvin Gaye version:
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Ooh,
ooh, I bet you're wonderin' how I knew About you're plans to make me
blue With some other guy you knew before. Between the two of us
guys You know I love you more. It took me by surprise I must
say, When I found out yesterday. Don't you know...
I
heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be
mine. Oh, I heard it through the grapevine, And I'm just about
to lose my mind. Honey, honey, yeah.
(I
heard it through the grapevine not much longer would you be my
baby!)
I
know a man ain't supposed to cry, But these tears I can't hold
inside. Losin' you would end my life you see, Cause you mean
that much to me. You could have told me yourself That you love
someone else. Instead...
I heard it through the
grapevine Not much longer would you be mine. Oh I heard it
through the grapevine, And I'm just about to lose my mind. Honey,
honey, yeah.
(I
heard it through the grapevine not much longer would you be my
baby!)
People
say believe half of what you see, Son, and none of what you
hear. I can't help being confused If it's true please tell me
dear Do you plan to let me go For the other guy you loved
before? Don't you know...
I
heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be
mine. Oh I heard it through the grapevine, And I'm just about
to lose my mind. Honey, honey, yeah.
(I
heard it through the grapevine not much longer would you be my baby!)
Transcript to the video 'Bill Gates: Impatient Optimist':
Tom Post: So, Matt, you had an
unusual opportunity to meet with Bill Gates, who is number 5 on our
most powerful people list. Everybody knows him for the 59 billion
dollars that he is worth, but you had a very different interest in
him.
Matthew Herper: People also know
about his charitable efforts, but I really went there, went to talk
to him about one particular charitable effort that really has taken
his heart and is one of his biggest areas of investment, and that's
the vaccine. Bill Gates has become one of the biggest proponents for
a technology that a lot of people take for granted in fighting
infectious disease, and he's got amazing goals.
Bill Gates: The number of deaths
caused by infectious disease should be down, the rate of that should
be down over 80% in the next quarter century or else, you know, we're
just not doing our job very well.
Post: There has never been an
effort, anything like that before.
Herper: No, we've only
eradicated one disease. There's a Glaxo-Smith-Kline vaccine for
malaria that just had some very encouraging results and it probably
wouldn't have gotten to the market without Gates. There's a vaccine
for meningitis in Africa, that, that certainly wouldn't have even
been developed without the Gates Foundation. He really has a big
picture view of how it might be possible, if we could get the shots
that kids get in the U.S. to the rest of the world more effectively,
we could, uh, save millions and millions of lives.
Post: You produced a great
story, but it obviously isn't the first time readers have read about
Bill Gates, uh, nor is it the first time that people have come across
his Foundation, it's been around for a dozen years. What's different
about your approach here in this story, this cover story?
Herper: First, is the focus on
the vaccine. I'd called the Gates Foundation to get Bill Gates into
a, uh, broader story I was working on on vaccines. There are a lot of
problems with the pharmaceutical industry, this is one of the things
that they do right. It seemed like a great story, but it was
searching for a character, and I realized that this guy, who most
people still think of as, you know, Mr. Microsoft, had turned out to
be the biggest advocate for these technologies, which we really take
for granted. I mean, people really forget, uh, how foundational to
our civilization vaccines are.
Bill Gates: You know in a sense
we had to give, we had to choose what the most impactful thing to
give the money would be, and not just the money, give our time,
energy, voice. So, what was that going to be? And in a sense, you
know, picking health, in retrospect, was pretty obvious because of
the...you know, if you say to say to a mother, “What counts to you?
Well, I'd like my children to live.” Probably'd be pretty high on
the list. “I'd like my child to develop their brain. I'd like them
not to be handicapped.” It's a pretty clear human need. And, so,
that became the dominant thing. You know, the great global inequity.
And fortunately with a magic solution, most of which relates to
inventing new vaccines, or getting vaccines that are rich-world
available broadly to every kid.
Herper: He and Melinda both
think in terms of the way they can save the most lives, uh, with
their money, which winds up being kind of systematic and not the way
most of us think about being humane, but actually does wind up being
hugely humane: that a baby in Africa is worth every much, every bit
as much as one in the U.S. or Europe.
Post: One of the striking things
in your story that I think that's quite different, you talk about the
way he has created a market for these vaccines that never existed
before.
Herber: Well, really it was as
simple as creating a market, but the problem is that's very hard to
do. You had to figure out to have enough money that the aide groups
would be buying a steady enough stream of vaccines that the drug
companies could make them, and how to constantly involve new players,
developing world companies, in that effort to drive down costs
further. Between the humanitarian impetus and good old Adam Smith
style competition, uh, really has dramatically reduced the cost of
those vaccines and the cheaper they are, the easier they are to
deliver.
Post: Now, here's a guy who's
bringing to bear incredible resources, incredible drive, incredible
focus, some of the same kinds of skills that, uh, he applied as a
software engineer. The kid who, uh, really managed to get
distributed, personal computing, to millions of people around the
world.
Gates: Comparing my two areas of
work, you know, it's a little tough. It, you know, feels great to me
that the resources I, and things I learned at Microsoft all apply so
well in this second phase, and some of my visibility there is partly
why these presidents will sit and talk with me and it gets health
issues higher on the agenda of those countries. You know, I love, I
love this work, and, you know, there's some incredible people I get
to work with in this stuff. You know, the, the similarities are
stronger than you might expect.
Herber: What's different I think
is that a lot of time to the rest of us the effort, those efforts,
when it came to the personal computer seemed cold and aggressive.
Uhm, here, he's still super numeric. I mean, he tends to talk, he'll
tell some stories about the kids, but he tends to talk a lot about
the numbers, and about the numbers of lives that can be saved for
certain amounts of money. That still seems very numeric, but here you
really are talking about people's lives and about a pretty wonderful
way of changing the world.
Gates: Fortunately, people are
making money on vaccines right now, so it's great for us that
vaccines are doing well, so that, you know, that means the amount of
innovative research going on is, is higher today and the rich-world
companies do more, and that means the, the Chinese and Indian
companies see that and they do more. You know, so it’s a pretty
good virtuous cycle right now in terms of focus on vaccines.
Post: He brings a particular
approach to these dollars that really is groundbreaking in a way.
Herber: Yeah, oh, it definitely
is. I mean, the constant thinking of how do we save, looking for
projects where you can get the most leverage, where you can save the
most lives, for the smallest investment really is a, a rigorous and
a pretty powerful way to do this.
