Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bigelow '36, W. A. Coates '37, M. Deming '37, A. Hyde '35, C. Middlebrook '38, E. Sachs '38, F. W. Goodhue '37, D. Tower '37, P. Young 1G, J. Latorracca '38, K. MacLeish '38, E. G. Dahl '38, S. M. Dall '38, M. E. Lasker '38, J. Ashmead '38, S. S. Stanton '38, L. H. Levy '37, E. H. Riddle '37, E. W. James '38, T. Richards '38, R. S. Russell '38, J. L. Senior '38, M. L. Hayward '38, W. Welch '38, J. H. Steinway '38, F. B. Stevens '35, R. C. Jones '38, J. R. Coolidge...
...steeds has not been run for some time, but there are signs that poets may be tuning up their mounts for more than the usual private canter. Critics who hardly raised their eyes at Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body began to look alive when Archibald MacLeish's Conquistador appeared. Though Poets Brewer, Hill and Stuart will cause little commotion among the critics, to plain readers they will be a further indication that narrative verse is coming back, may be edging toward a real modern epic...
...fresh note rather than a new one is struck in Poet Engle's writings. Enthusiasts may compare him to Whitman, to Sandburg, to Frost, but cooler heads will wait for more achievement before upping him above MacLeish or Jeffers. A note of challenge to defeat, however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works...
...together. But both music and choreography-breath and flesh of any ballet-were the work of Russians: the music of Nicholas Nabokov, 31-year-old composer of Alsace and Paris; the choreography of Leonide Massine, 36-year-old master of the present Russian ballet. Only the libretto by Archibald MacLeish, the stage sets by Albert Johnson (The Band Wagon, As Thousands Cheer) and the costumes by Irene Sharaff (Eva Le Gallienne's Alice in Wonderland) were native American...
Librettos (more accurately, scenarios) for ballet are generally, for some mysterious reason, the work of poets though the spoken word plays no part. Origin of Union Pacific was Mr. MacLeish's satiric poem, "Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City," which celebrated the building of the transcontinental lines by immigrant labor, satirized the role of the promoters & capitalists...