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Then there was David Borden's aria for soprano and orchestra on Dylan Thomas's Force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age. There was no clear relationship between the music and the words. The poem invokes a myriad of very different images: plant metabolism, evaporation, the action of tide and wind, and time, the dripping of blood and the hanging of a man. The music pounded along its atonal course without proper variation in color for the different verses. Borden did demonstrate his sensitivity to the poem, once, with his treatment of the reiterated...
Fitzgerald consoled the rejected Io yesterday with a special poem in her honor...
...late at night to strum and hum folksongs, the two embrace all of a troubled generation's inchoate longings in one full, quiet moment. At such moments Nobody Waved Good-Bye conquers its simple ideas and tangled verbiage with cool cinematic assurance, turning a problem play into a poem...
Most of the selections by poets Richard Eberhart and Stephen Sandy are disappointingly shallow and listless, with the exception of Sandy's comic verses entitled "The Sultan Wears a Crimson Turban." John Allman's poem, full of mellow nostalgia for "childhood and the family," get ponderously explicit in spots...
Miss Caroline won the award for a diary she wrote entitled "Notes on My Twentieth Year." Awards were also made to Grace A. Gregory '66, for a paper "The Origin and Formation of Meteorites," Elisabeth L. Hackner '65, for a poem "Beaufort, 1898," and Anne Hebald '66, for a paper "The Sun, Line and Cave Allegories in the Republic of Plato: A Cyclical Theory." Honorable mentions went to Caroline G. Balderston '66 and L. Ann Cameron...