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Dana Gioia's avatar

I loved all of the Zeffirelli productions I have seen--Tosca, La Boheme, Otello, and Aida. I trust you know that the new Met Tosca was booed by the audience for its obscenity and bad taste. The Met had to scrap it and revive the Zeffirelli production. Critics often hate the realism of Z's productions, but nowadays most of us rejoice to see an opera presented without gross directorial distortions.

I am no scholar of R.P. Warren's work. I've read nearly everything he wrote, and I heard him speak half a dozen times. If I had to venture an intuitive guess, I would say that Warren's mature religious vision was a vague sort of Christianity based in his response to the natural world. One might call it a sentimental Christianity or Christian brand of pantheism. Leaving the South and settling in intellectual New England made him a sort of Transcendentalist Unitarian--such as Longfellow or Emerson.

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siddharth's avatar

delightful read

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