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...Boston Symphony, the critics emerged dazed, uncertain, but impressed. The Times's Olin Downes wrote, somewhat existentially, that one "wonders whether many pages of the score are not symbolic rather than expressive, or attemptedly expressive, of what cannot be communicated." The Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang found the work a "serious, moving and convincing piece." On one point, most of the critics were agreed: they wanted to hear Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard again...
...longing for primitivism is expressed pathetically and obviously in the selections from Peter Sourian's novel Mavrean's Place, but with sophistication and in tones of dignified and calculated regret in Miss V. R. Lang's poem Address to the Redcoats. In the former, Sourian seems to keep a careful eye upon his intended audience, "well-dressed rich foreign dull stupid boys and girls who should all be choked" and yet who, I can't help thinking, he hopes will be shocked and delighted by the escapades of his vapid figures. Miss Lang's poem, in spite of the skill...
...orange-covered, 40-page issue contains articles, stories and poems by undergraduates and graduate students, as well as by an associate professor of Romance Languages, Roger Shattuck. Another contributor, Miss Violet Lang, has written two verse plays for Cambridge's Poet's Theater...
...obscurity and murky symbolism are quite justified. Granting Arcadia its moments of brilliant imagery, and a really fine scene between the artist and his ex-mistress, the poetry is not, intrinsically, worth the effort of picking what is good from the shielding verbiage. Neither does the authoress, V. R. Lang, enjoy so glittering a reputation that one is compelled to find out just what she means. Another poet's cry for "more substance and less art" is in order, despite many moments and touches of merit...
With Phoebe is a poodle, played by Royall Tyler, who speaks French translations of American jazz slang. What he symbolizes beyond the result of Damon's frantic creativeness, is a puzzle--and an example of Miss Lang's obtuseness. Nevertheless, Tyler senses the impressionistic mood of the evening and, in a small part, acts accordingly with fair success...