Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Henry A. Wallace, the old man looked sort of sheepish. He seemed more bashful than ever when Guffey opened up with a speech of thunderous praise. Then Guffey turned things over to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who as toastmaster heaped on more praise. From Henry Wallace, Archibald MacLeish, the Senate's Alben Barkley came more panegyrics, more acclaim...
Blackmur, Eleven Poems on the Same Theme ($1), by Robert Penn Warren, and Edmund Wilson's Notebooks of Night ($2.50), with its famous parody of Joyce and its famous garroting of MacLeish...
Accepted for the privilege of practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court: Poet-Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish (LL.B., Harvard...
...texts include such original documents as the Resolves of the First Continental Congress and John Dickinson's Letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Unusually sophisticated for undergraduates, it requires students to read such authors as French Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, British Socialist Harold Laski, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Machiavelli...
...Paul Smith wrote a sizzling letter of correction to the New York Daily News's Washington Correspondent John O'Donnell. He was sore at O'Donnell's waspish cracks at OWI's proposed budget and his ribbing Archibald MacLeish about an OWI dinner at Washington's Carlton Hotel (TIME, Oct. 5). "You're nuts, John," wrote Paul. "Mr. MacLeish had nothing to do with the dinner check. It's nobody's damned business. I paid it. The dinner was $7.50 a plate-not $6 as reported. The total was $369.55." Last...