Word: jephthah
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...only rarely pushes to stridency. His classical diction is close to flawless (including every last y-sound in words like 'dew' and 'suit'), and he speaks with an unusual feeling for the musicality of the lines. In fact, he shows, in the excerpts from the "pious chanson" about Jephthah's daughter, that he has a splendid singing voice. And his apostrophe to Man is itself a beautifully modulated song...
...best thing in the magaine is Andreas Teuber's "a Poem," which reduces to rubble the pretensions of what someone once called the "crotch school" of Cambridge, writing. Chana Faerstein's translation of Itzik Manger's poem "Jephthah's Daughter" has moments of power. But the magazine still does not publish enough undergraduate writing...