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...tend to think of the Saturday Review as the house organ of higher culture in America. For it was from there, a year ago last May, that the first salvo of literary enthusiasm was discharged, by the noted American poet and fearless antagonist of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, John Ciardi. "Archibald MacLeish's J.B. is great poetry, great drama, and--as far as my limitations permit me to sense it--great stagecraft," he proclaimed in the opening sentence of his article, "The Birth of a Classic." A prefatory note explained that SR's poetry editor was saluting the work...
...then, on the cold, wet night of December eleventh, 1958--just eight short months after John Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived...
...Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, has decided to postpone his retirement for at least one more year, he disclosed yesterday...
...MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time, with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
...MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...