Word: leish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baxter, tingting, looked, tingting, at tingting, the tingting, clock, ting-ting." Random thoughts churned around in Baxter's stream of consciousness like rampaging underwear in an electric washing machine. "Goddamn you, Archibald Mac-Leish!" he thought: "And you, Dos Passes ... So Hitler must be stopped? . . . Oh, but-and-oh, but-what're yuh doin'? . . . Oh, the lousy lousy lousy LOUSY mess! Why isn't it 1922 instead of 1942? And I-twenty-two, walking through the Tuiler-o-o-o with a copy of Ulysses . . ." And where was Lisa, murmuring with her "pink-lipped, delible pout...
...TIME TO SPEAK-Archibald Mac-Leish-Houghfon Mifflin...
...American Cause finds Poet Mac Leish even farther from the Finland Station. In view of his relations with the White House, it is almost an official statement of the case for democracy. Quibblers may experience an uneasy wish that MacLeish had been a little more explicit as to what the democracy of the future will look like. But most Americans will agree that the case for the democracy of the present has seldom been better presented...