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...Though Archibald MacLeish, currently Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, considers himself primarily a poet, he has on several occasions turned to the dramatic medium. In the years just before MacLeish came to Cambridge for a year's stint (1938-39) as Curator of the Nieman Collection, he wrote three verse plays especially for radio: Panic (1935), Fall of the City (1936), and Air Raid...
When war came. Léger's refusal to join the Vichy regime brought him disgrace and exile to the U.S.. where Poet Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, gave him a $45-a-week job collating bibliographies in the stacks. He has lived in Washington ever since; now, with a more lucrative contract from his publisher, he can afford an annual trip to the French Riviera. He never talks European politics in public, though he knew the secrets of 15 years of French diplomacy. His comments were saved for Chronicle, his latest work, which ends: "Summit...
...Archibald MacLeish, chairman of the Faculty Committee on the Drama, commended director Stephen A. Aaron '57. "What Aaron did was completely remarkable," MacLeish stated; "he deserves very great praise." Shakespearean scholar Alfred Harbage, Cabot Professor of English, deemed the production "very well done, especially considering it was a terribly difficult play...
...First, Archibald MacLeish argues that Loeb's stated function--"plays for audiences"--is not inconsistent with artistic integrity, because good drama needs an "attending consciousness." Robert Chapman, Director of the Center, writes that Loeb seeks a "middle ground" between the theatre school and laissez-faire amateurism. (Page...
...start, Massachusetts Hall should appeal to Archibald Roosevelt and the Veritas Foundation for money to establish a second Economics department, a department which would exist in free competition with the present one, fighting on the open market of ideas for the minds of the young...