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When the best director on Broadway (Elia Kazan for those in doubt), one of the foremost dramatic actors in America, (Pat Hingle) and one of the the finest living poets conspire to produce a play, you are bound to have a masterpiece. And that's what Archibald MacLeish's J.B. is, one of the most distinguished dramatic triumphs of the modern theatre...
...list of men who have drifted here from New Haven is a long and distinguished one, including Dean Bundy, Archibald MacLeish, Dean Brooks, V. O. Key, Andrew Gleason, David Owen, Kingman Brewster, Whiting, and many others. Yale also has its share of defectors, men like Paul Hammond, Blitzer, Robert Lane, Richard Ruggles, H. Bradford Westerfield, and James Tobin. Besides the momentous choice of football loyalties, these people who have had associations with both schools have some interesting observations about the different characteristics of each...
...last half century, while speech has elsewhere become a much more formidable academic discipline, Harvard's original dislike for the "elocutionary movement" remains unchanged by contemporary circumstances. The current Boylston Professor, Archibald MacLeish, is a poet, a situation reflecting Harvard's current lack of interest in speech training. Even though Professor MacLeish has expressed his support for greater teaching of the speech arts, the University's speech training is conducted in a sadly limited manner...
...greatest flaw of modern civilization is its inability to "feel" and "imagine," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, told a University of Minnesota audience Sunday...
...Theatre Workshop, whose main purpose was to present, on a budget of between $10 and $25 each, live productions of plays written by students. For the first time in many years, the student playwright was accorded formal recognition, encouragement, and an outlet through which he could obtain, as Archibald MacLeish has said, the necessary experience of feeling "the blush of shame" that comes when he sees his own work produced. The Workshop has continued right up to the present and has fulfilled its mission admirably; of the 33 student plays produced since the War, 26 were given since the founding...