Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in the Atlantic Monthly in May, 1941, way back when, Archibald MacLeish pointed to the dangers facing American higher education, using the University as an example: "Harvard, for all its history, is endangered as are other universities by a European political revolution which attempts to substitute propaganda for science and mob emotion for disciplined thought: a revolution which would, if it could, grind Harvard with Yale and Princeton and Chicago and Pennsylvania and Stanford and the rest into the rubbish which was once the University of Prague and the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn...
Since The Great Departure, some of the MacLeish warnings undoubtedly have proved justified. During the war years Harvard may be said to have been characterized by a lack of serious thinking, a judgment which is based on the conversational level of students. Even in the best of circles, people were making mostly Tech talk--about how many bombs a B-24 could carry, and the strategy of the Italian campaign...
...were coming into the universities during the war "to get an education," most of them to be snatched out of this new academic atmosphere at the crisis of their developing maturity. MacLeish described John Harvard's Harvard as "a small pocket of godliness in a profane world.... Its lofty purpose was to preserve, in the midst of the barbarities of the new world, the morality, the manners, and the learning of the old." But Harvard did not keep too far above the profane...
Last week in Manhattan, scholarly Archibald MacLeish, ex-assistant Secretary of State, pointed the moral. When the press had finished with Sir Frederick, MacLeish said, "the sum total effect was a lie and a disastrous and evil...
...sponsor), School of the Air gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...