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Speaking to a crowd of 1000 in the Amherst College gym, MacLeish described Dickinson as "the town's greatest citizen" and her poems as "the touchstones of all touchstones...
...more you look at Emily Dickinson's work, the more you come to appreciate the stature of her poetry," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, observed Friday at the bicentennial of the founding of Amherst Township...
MacLeish plans to compare Dickinson's poetic achievements to those of Yeats, Rousseau, and Keats in the remaining four lectures of his current series, "Poetry and Experience." He will attempt to establish that Dickinson's world is the private world, Yeat's the public, Rousseau's the artistic, and Keats's the arable...
...revival of Alison's House, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Susan Glaspell in 1931, showed us some writing that could not get by in the theatre today; but the story, based on the mysterious life of poetess Emily Dickinson, is inherently dramatic and playworthy. A woman also wrote the group's next offering, The Chalk Garden. Enid Bagnold's play about two interlocking struggles is a good deal better than Miss Glaspell...
...Washington last week, the three-member board of monitors, set up by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to oversee Teamster affairs, confronted President Hoffa with an order to get rid of Joey Glimco. The monitors want Hoffa to suspend Glimco from the presidency of Local 777 and have the local's financial records audited by a reliable firm. Among other things, charged the monitors, Glimco...