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Swinging down and down to a jolting thud on a field of green alfalfa, Parson Von Norman thought of the 23rd Psalm: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." Pilot Wilson jumped too, and the empty plane crashed. On the ground the men gathered, bruised and nervous. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," someone said. Later, reporters asked the shaken clergymen how they had felt, faced by a moment that often brings even the most hardened sinners to repentance. One of them answered for all. "There was plenty of prayer going on," he said...
...bemused fingering of the women's clothes that he has salvaged from the wreck; the note deepens with the death and burial of his companion, the dog; it breaks into wild orchestration as the crazed man runs to an echoing valley and there hurls the 23rd Psalm against the ringing hills solely to hear the answering sound of his own distorted voice. In a drunken revel, O'Herlihy re-creates in his cave all the roistering cheerfulness of an Elizabethan pub, but this ends, too, in a disillusion so great that he walks blindly into the surf, bearing...
...imagery, Dryden's poem is generally silly and would be a woeful bore with anything but skillful reading. Director Peter Judd did not make the mistake of some productions and let the performers burlesque the text; rather, each recited the flowery lines as if they were the Twenty-Third Psalm, and the results were doubly hilarious. Among numerous principals, Nora Sayre transformed the mealy-mouthed Emmeline into a vivacious heroine, and Thomas Merriam as Merlin romped through the comic role of "a famous Inchanter...
...very different, isn't it?", another's hopeful sigh after the final Amen, "Is it really over?" At least among his choristers, familiarity bred delight. As one young singer burbled after the music was over: "Wait till you hear tomorrow's program. That 84th Psalm- it's terrific...
...From Psalm 100:1: "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands...