Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recordings of poetry readings by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Archibald MacLeish, and others will be played by Dr. Packard during a lecture on "The Uses of the Phonograph in the Enjoyment of Poetry," open to the public without charge, at 4 o'clock...
Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism, gave a reading of his own poetry in Emerson D yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock before an audience of over 100 people. His reading was the first of the three Morris Gray Poetry Fund speakers scheduled for this half year. Robert Frost and Carl Van Doren are scheduled to come...
...MacLeish, on the Harvard staff this year for the first time, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning poem "Conquistador," and of "New Found Land," "Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City," "Union Pacific,--a Ballet," "Panic," and the two radio plays "Fall of the City" and "Air Raid...
This Thursday (10 p.m. EST), again from CBS's Workshop, Poet MacLeish speaks to half-poet ears through another verse play, Air Raid. The station announcement is followed at once by the studio director's voice addressing...
Shrewder with his sound effects this time, Poet MacLeish has added to his impelling verse imperative noises. A woman sings a scale and the scale is parodied by the warning siren, the whine of the raiding planes. It is echoed in a boy's voice calling, is converted into an agonized scream to end the play. Oddity of Air Raid is that, in spite of the fact that the situation is a straight projection of last month's Czechoslovakian crisis, when a man listened for war at his loudspeaker like a frightened bellboy at a murderer...