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<title>The Hills Are Alive: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? : Responses</title>
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<dc:date>2012-01-11T12:55:21-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "The Hills Are Alive: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Love this essay. I am more and more aware of how the movies have helped define my landscape-sense.  Would love to see a shot of the girls up there doing their thing!<br />
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We continue to deify the wilderness ideal because we are animals,<br />
part of 'wilderness'. The apparent contradiction is internalized, and it results in a sort of subconscious self-loathing that makes us long for what we see as non-human. ]]></description>
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	<dc:date>2012-01-11T12:55:21-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "The Hills Are Alive: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Isn't the author's opinion on the musical form beside the point?  I should think the average reader of Places would be more interested to hear the logic behind his professed love of the Nevada landscape.  The more pressing issue - the one that goes unaddressed here - is why, almost two centuries after the Transcendentalists, we should continue to deify the wilderness ideal.]]></description>
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	<dc:date>2012-01-05T13:25:15-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "The Hills Are Alive: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This is so unbelievably true and frustrating. I may not have daughters but I cringed  at the same times you did Michael. Having recently seen Wicked, I felt so thankful for pretty lights and pretty voices to distract me from the absurdity that is inherent in musicals and the ideas they present. However, I must say that the Sound of Music drives me much more insane.]]></description>
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	<dc:date>2012-01-04T12:23:36-05:00</dc:date>
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