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...would seem fair to assume that no story or poem in which the reader does not know in some sense "what is happening" will appeal to that reader. Using this critical pretext, I can perhaps explain my intestinal reactions to the March edition of The Advocate, reactions which are on the whole negative...
...resent anybody, including Kier Nash, writing a poem which does not contain its own "key." Poems about Thomas Mann's creations should be confined to the margins of his books. Yet, Nash's poem is the most lyrical work I have read in the Advocate in a long time. Tricks like "mild feet" or "hair lit to lightning" grate on the mind's eye, but most of the words do their work well...
...small double-chorus opened the all-sacred program with a performance of Palestrina's Stabat Master. This work, one of the many settings of a medieval Latin poem attributed to Jacopone da Todi, is an excellent example of Palestrina's lucid polyphony. If the chorus's presentation was marred by an occasional uneasy entrance and by prominence of individual voices, it never fell into the pitfall of monotony which too often characterizes renditions of this type of music. Instead, the long vocal lines were moulded into a dynamically sound performance...
...tour. With his Assignment: India, he probed modern India with a cool, relentless subjectivity that has been his trademark since his early days in Chicago's languid, sponge-rubber school of TV. He used the same technique to provide television fans last week with a highly personal film poem to Maurice Chevalier's Paris. Showman Chevalier, a redoubtable 68, doffed his straw hat and invited viewers to follow him and see "why Paris is Paris." Chevalier's Paris proved to be not the Folies Bergere, Napoleon's Tomb, the Deux Magots or the Flea Market, just...
About the only really intriguing aspect of the other stories and poems is trying to match the initials following them with a name on the masthead. One name does appear after a poem, that of J.H. Updike '54. Presumably the New Yorker was not intrigued...