Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Archibald MacLeish, 1932 winner of the Politzer poetry prize, has recently been appointed Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism here for the coming academic year. MacLeish will supervise the creation in Widener of a collection of general literature on modern journalism...
John D. Hadsell, Norman, Okla.; University of Oklahoma. Rolf N. B. Haugen, University of Minnesota. Everett R. Johnson, Rockfeller Institute. Luna B. Leopold 1G, Willard D. Lewis '35, John Lydenberg 2G. Kenneth MacLeish '38, John K. Musgrave Jr. 2G, John F. Ohl, G.Ed., Charles E. Passage 1G. Charles M. Rick Jr. 1G, Rochester R. Roby, Wilfrid S. Sellars 1G, Reuben E. Slesinger, University of Pittsburgh. Arthur Szathmary 1G, Theodore H. White '38 Francis J. Whitfield, '37 Harold Winkler, University of Chicago. Robert A. Winters 1G, Gilbert F. Woods...
...cast stringing along and repair the Mercury toilets. He also got promises of $12,000; then the recession came and two of the Mercury's seven angels had their wings clipped. Though Caesar was already in rehearsal, it looked as if it might never open. But Archibald MacLeish came in as liaison officer, got some fresh backing for the Mercury from Playwright Clare Boothe, Theatre Lover George Hexter...
Poetographer MacLeish drops that potential like a hot potato...
...will probably rate it above Panic and The Fall of the City, But they will feel both worried and baffled. The bafflement they can blame on a hybrid art form that at least is earnestly ambitious, at worst is a humorless bollix. The worry they can blame on Poet MacLeish's extraordinary ability to hit topical points straight on the head with whatever instrument happens to come to hand. The conclusion they will probably draw is that Archibald MacLeish is so much of a poet that even his bad books make good points...