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...Dumpling had been built in Napoleon's day; the Fleetwood fishing trawler Jacinta, to the horror of the troops that sailed home in her hold, stank to the skies of cod; the destroyer Harvester, built on contract for Brazil, had all its gunnery instructions in Portuguese; a Dominican friar skippered the armed yacht Gulzar...
...colored melodies, Orontea scored a hit even with the critic of the Communist L'Unita, who conceded that "it really is beautiful music." The audience did not quite hail the composer as a "miracolo della musica," as it did in Cesti's day-but it gave the friar the honor of 27 curtain calls...
...played. Steve Aaron hams his way through the role of Papa Scapulet with such obvious pleasure at being on a stage, milking every line and pausing before every exit as though he couldn't bear to leave, that one can't help but enjoy his performance. Spyro Harbouris plays Friar Lawrence as a deadpan Italian cobbler, and for one delightful moment Philip Stone totters on stage and then stumbles off as Friar John. Beatrice Paipert is not nearly disgusting enough as the nurse, but at least she laughs and weeps with admirable gusto...
...book is perceptively introduced and translated by Poet Kimon Friar, who captures the rainbow spray of Kazantzakis' thought, sparkling with paradox and poetry, anguish and joy. Sample reflections...
...hero canonized. But sainthood is unlikely, say Vatican spokesmen, because the man Savonarola defied was a Pope, even though he was a Borgia. To the historian, perhaps the most fascinating question is what would have happened if the Roman Catholic Church had been reformed at the time the angry friar demanded it. When Savonarola died, Martin Luther was 14 years...