Anti-Climax
N August 15 4YA gave us a most solemnly lovely series of readings appropriate to Good Friday. ‘These, selected by Helmut Rex, dealt directly, as in descriptions of scene and place, or indirectly, as in meditation, with aspects of the Passion. Ken Stewart, who read the commentary and introduced the quotations, was clear but a little overeager; the particular matter he had to deliver required not over-expressive diction, but plain straightforward reading. Roland Watson, who read. the extracts, managed without over-emphasising any of his material, to convey to the listener an awe-inspiring sense of the spiritual significance of the occasion. Although I make no personal claim to piety, I found that the readings had wrought me to such a fervour that the final rationalistic cold douche administered in the egotistical Whitman lines came as a most uncomfortable anti-climax,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 11
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139Anti-Climax New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 11
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