Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view that political rather than intellectual timidity led the two speakers to bury their necks in sand is substantiated by the purely negative but clear-eyed pessimism of the two corresponding poets, Mr. MacLeish and Mr. Hatch. But one can scarcely escape the conclusion that the speeches were unfortunate. To the man with half an eye to fundamentals they were confusing; to the "floater" they will appear thorough. At a time when the greatest need in the world is for clear thinking and courageous definition of basic values and problems, these two men had nothing to offer...
...clock--Phi Beta Kappa exercises in Sanders Theatre. Orator, Governor W. L. Cross of Connecticut; poet, Archibald MacLeish...
...Best Play-Maxwell Anderson, $1,000 for Both Your Houses (TIME, Mar. 13). Best History-to the late Frederick J. Turner, $2,000 for The Significance of Sections in American History. Best Biography-Allan Nevins. $1,000 for Grover Cleveland (TIME, Jan. 2). Best Volume of Verse-Archibald MacLeish of the editorial staff of FORTUNE, $1,000 for Conquistador (TIME, April...
...ever want to reread for pleasure." Allen Tate: "One of the three great works of poetry in our time." Hugh Walpole: "He is a beautiful mingler of dead worlds and live ones to me-one of the few poets who bridges the gulf between the Renaissance and Lenin." Archibald MacLeish: "Pound, more than any other man, is responsible for the emancipation of modern English poetry from the prose tradition of the 19th Century." A large section of serious critics think Pound is not only best of living U. S. poets but the only one since Walt Whitman to exert...
Archibald MacLeish, poet, FORTUNE...