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...destiny. For what must surely rank as one of the greatest physical adventures in history was, unlike the immortal explorations of the past, infinitely more than a reconnaissance of geography or unknown elements. It was a journey into man's future, a hopeful but urgent summons, in Poet Archibald MacLeish's words, "to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold-brothers who know now they are truly brothers...
...PLAYHOUSE. An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts. A historical drama by Archibald MacLeish commemorating the bicentennial of his New Eng land home town. Repeat...
...woodwind. With such works as Soldat, Octet, Dumbarton Oaks, and Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Stravinsky is definitely a member of the former group. L'Histoire du Soldat (1918), a suite of elegant miniatures for seven players, was given a generally excellent reading under the direction of student conductor David Archibald. Mr. Archibald, although somewhat inhibited technically, maintained metrical control and instrumental balance. In his propriety of gesture he was refreshingly free from both the hysterical and praying mantis perversions, conducting with simple, effective judiciousness resulting from the unself-indulgent understanding of a work. The few instances of imprecision, such...
...beginning of the Depression. In its early years, it was a hotbed of contentious comment. "We made the discovery," said Luce, "that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers." One of the major contributors to FORTUNE was a poet, Archibald MacLeish. "My essential education as an American began on FORTUNE," he said later. The magazine subjected U.S. business to the kind of critical scrutiny it had never undergone before. FORTUNE tended to be liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed, harbored at least one genuine reactionary. Described by Luce...
...most campuses, highly vocal dissident groups make up a very small minority. Yet many of the issues they exploit are just grievances felt by the majority of students. The Report of the Commission on the Columbia University Riots, chaired by Harvard Law School's Archibald Cox, makes it clear that revolutionaries on campus may succeed in destroying a university if the grievances of the peaceful majority have not been...