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...Poet Archibald MacLeish, bucking the pessimistic tide that often damns man's material progress, dashed off a ten-stanza Poem in a Festival of Art in Boston at the Public Garden, then headed there to read it. Gist of Poem: "Is it the city or heart that's wrong . . . / O hush! There is a silence in this place, / For all the chattering gears that grind, a grace / Of present expectation in this ground . . . / No city stands but is the image of the heart...
...contribution to American life, which decided the University to take an active part in the Festival, giving over Sanders Theatre to the group. Indeed, among the trustees of the festival are such Harvard professors as Reuben A. Brower, Robert Chapman, Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, Harry T. Levin '33, and Archibald MacLeish. The interest of these men, and of the University, is focused on the possibilities of making the Festival a really important event, with internationally known theatrical figures coming to Cambridge and not only participating in the productions, but also taking an active part in the life of the Summer...
...informal policy advisors group since '54 are John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics who is out of the country now; Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Business Administration who will retire at the end of the year; Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government; and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, on sabbatical leave...
After three years of practice in the Providence firm of Tillinghast and Collins, Chafee returned to Harvard to teach civil rights in the Law School. Among his first students were such incipient barristers as Dean Acheson, Joseph N. Welch, and Archibald MacLeish. Chafee hopes his lectures "did they no harm." Since 1919 Chafee, in the capacity of full professor, has preached the primacy of the First Amendment, its defense and its preservation...
...served on many private and public bodies investigating freedom of the press and speech. In the late twenties he acted as counsel to the National Committee on Law Observance and Enforcement. Form 1943 to '47 Chafee, along with Jacques Maritain, Harold Lasswell, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Rheinhold Niebuhr, and Archibald MacLeish, served on the Freedom of the Press Committee, a private group sponsored by Henry Luce to investigating the extent of freedom of the press in the U.S. When the Committee started investigating Luce, the publisher stopped attending meetings and thereafter dropped by only for cocktails. The Committee's members explore...