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"[singing] The hills are alive with the sound of music, With songs they have sung for a thousand years. The hills fill my heart with the sound of music. My heart wants to sing every song it hears! My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees. My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church on a breeze. To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way. To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray! I go to the hills when my heart is lonely. I know I will hear what I've heard before. And my heart will be blessed with the sound of music. And I'll sing once more."
"[singing] Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite things."
"The first three notes just happen to be, Do-Re-Mi. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol [pronounced So]-La-Ti. Oh, let's see if I can make it easier. [singing] Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun Me, a name I call myself. Far, a long, long way to run. Sew, a needle pulling thread. La, a note to follow Sol Tea, a drink with jam and bread. That will bring us back to Do..."
"[before he sings "Edelweiss" reprise version] My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die. [singing] Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me. Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me. Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever."
"[singing] How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand ...How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?"
"[singing] Climb ev'ry mountain, search high and low. Follow ev'ry byway, every path you know. Climb ev'ry mountain, ford every stream. Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream. A dream that will need all the love you can give Every day of your life for as long as you live..."
"Radiance that floods the screen...and warms the heart!"
"The more you see it, the more it becomes one of your favorite things!"
"The Happiest Sound In All The World!"
"Julie Andrews - Maria"
"Christopher Plummer - Captain Georg von Trapp"
"Charmian Carr - Liesl von Trapp"
"Nicholas Hammond - Friedrich von Trapp"
"Heather Menzies - Louisa von Trapp"
"Duane Chase - Kurt von Trapp"
"Angela Cartwright - Brigitta von Trapp"
"Debbie Turner - Martha von Trapp"
"Kym Karath - Gretl von Trapp"
"Richard Haydn - Max Detweiler"
"Eleanor Parker - The Baroness Elsa"
"Peggy Wood - Reverend Mother"
"Anna Lee - Sister Margaretta"
"Portia Nelson - Sister Berthe"
"Ben Wright - Herr Zeller"
"Daniel Truhitte - Rolfe"
"Norma Varden - Frau Schmidt"
"Marni Nixon - Sister Sophia"
"Gil Stuart - Franz"
"Evadne Baker - Sister Bernice (final film role)"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.