Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Welles's speech, another old friend of the President spoke his forebodings about U.S. foreign policy. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, addressing the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City: "The peace we seem to be making will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping-a peace, in brief, of factual situations, a peace without moral purpose or human intent, a peace of dicker and trade about the facts of commerce, the facts of banking, the facts of transportation, which will lead us where the treaties made...
Archibald MacLeish, poet laureate Librarian of Congress, had words for the nation (see U.S. AT WAR) and four words for four medal-getting word men: "Freedom, liberty, democracy, equality . . . are revolutionary words always. . . ." The American Academy of Arts and Letters' four medal-getting revolutionaries...
...Other members of the Unit: David S. Ingalls, the Navy's No. 1 ace and later U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, now in the Pacific; Kenneth MacLeish, whose death in battle against eight German fighters was memorialized by brother Archibald MacLeish; F. Trubee Davison, now a colonel in the Army Air Forces; Artemus L. Gates, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air; and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary...
...State Department almost made a gaffe last week. Five scholarly gentlemen were about to fly to London as U.S. delegates to an Allied conference on postwar education. They were: Arkansas Congressman James William Fulbright, former president of the University of Arkansas; Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish; U.S. Education Commissioner John Ward Studebaker; the State Department's Grayson Neikirk Kefauver; and Ralph Edmond Turner...
...MacLeish's worthy purpose, however, has yet to be eloquently realized. His scripts which have a certain eloquence, nevertheless seem overloaded with conversation, make little use of advanced, dramatic radio techniques, are dignified and resonant rather than compelling...