"[5] A quotation from Revolutionary War era poet Timothy Dwight IV was also included: The choreography was basically a slow simple march,[2] during which Graham, dressed in white, flourished red and blue scarves.
[6] The critic for Chicago Dancer thought the work's appearance on the program "unnecessary and repetitious, when American Document says all that it does and so concisely and convincingly."
"[8] The critic for American Dancer wrote "it left many in the audience with a feeling of frustration and a growing distaste for modern dance.
"[5] The New York Times' John Martin had a more favorable opinion, "Though there is nothing in any way new about the vocabulary in which it is couched, a familiar idiom is given fresh values by the beautiful dignity that illuminates it.
It is the kind of dance nobody but Martha Graham could possibly make substantial or moving, but she succeeds notably in both directions.