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...Lion Rampantcontains three good poems. Richard Kershner's "Three Preludes." Kershner, a junior at Johns Hopkins, apparently writes a lot; more of his poems will be published this fall in a volume by young Baltimore poets. More importantly, his work shows what the other poems and the one story in the Lion Rampantdo not-a degree of artistic accomplishment Kershner can work with words; they make his ideas tangible, add relevance to some very personal thoughts...
...first prelude, which is untitled, Kershner shows the emptiness of a man's mind by filling his attention with a clutter of objects. But he yearns after his missing lover, and the objects become cruel and taunting. The grapes seem cruel because they are "hard," the saucers and chairs because "they do not choose to speak." He uses versification cleverly, with ironic intent...
...other poems, "The Body Vigil" and "Im Herbst," although both are rather weak in organization from stanza to stanza, show that Kershner has developed a poetic vocabulary. He speaks again and again of the seasons, of ice, of wind, of worms, of fire, and these images come to define, not merely describe, feelings...
...process is interpreted with sensitivity and restraint by Director Irvin Kershner. Actress Ure, who in private life is Mrs. Shaw, manages to be both solidly female and delicately feminine as Mrs. Coffey. And Actor Shaw, known mostly for the stage roles he has played (The Caretaker) and the novels he has written (The Sun Doctor), is Ginger to the life. Brash, frightened, cunning, confused, sentimental, self-indulgent, weak but somehow also fundamentally decent and lovable, Ginger as Shaw sees him is both an individual and a type, an image of the child that is the father (and sometimes the undoing...
...Hoodlum Priest. A bewildered boy, entrapped by life, finally finds freedom in the gas chamber. Crude and violent, Irvin Kershner's drama nonetheless shows that the divine spark can burn in trash...