Word: archibald
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...Civil Liberties Union presented a telegram from Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, in which he stated that the last two wars had shown the Commonwealth was politically sound in spirit. Existing statutes on subversive problems are adequate, MacLeish added, and that the proposed measure might have an effect opposite to that intended by weakening rather than strengthening the colleges...
...club will have no faculty adviser for the present, although Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory has offered his assistance on specific problems. Under the present plan, each playwright will direct or choose the director for his own play...
...Innocents (adapted by William Archibald from Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.; produced by Peter Cookson) dramatizes with considerable tact and fidelity what is probably the most famous of modern ghost stories. As does The Turn of the Screw, it often whispers rather than speaks, suggests far more than it explains, and calls up something not only eerie but evil...
...Adapter Archibald has not tried to force the lock of Henry James's intentions; he nowhere cheats or even cheapens. Moreover, his play captures a certain Jamesian elegance as well as eeriness. With the help of Jo Mielziner's fine period set, Alex North's effective music and Peter Glenville's perceptive staging, The Innocents inhabits a different world from the usual, or even the unusual, thriller...
...Archibald MacLeish '19, Boylsotn Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will be toastmaster of a dinner given by the Americans for Democratic Action in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. Principal speakers will be Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO's president, and Elmer Davis, radio commentator...