Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England was: "Who writes Churchill's speeches for him?" It is well known that Stylist Churchill writes his own speeches. But the chiefs keep a jealous literary eye on one another, and the President may have feared that Churchill had a bigger gun in his pocket than Archibald MacLeish. For Washington newshawks credit the Librarian of Congress with writing much of the Third Inaugural and more than one cozy Fire side Chat. This week they scanned the two latest MacLeish prose books for fur ther stylistic evidences. There were plenty...
...hair turned a shade greyer on the heads of many elder statesmen when ex-Fellow Traveler MacLeish was appointed Librarian of Congress. A Time to Speak, a collection of MacLeish prose of the past decade, should reassure all but the most skittish. Though the original journalistic impact of some of the pieces has been softened by time, most of them show that even in the days of his most furious fellow-traveling Poet MacLeish was chiefly interested in asserting the importance of the poet's role in a world of social change...
...later pieces MacLeish brings the same crusading spirit to bear on the role of the librarian...
...American Cause finds Poet Mac Leish even farther from the Finland Station. In view of his relations with the White House, it is almost an official statement of the case for democracy. Quibblers may experience an uneasy wish that MacLeish had been a little more explicit as to what the democracy of the future will look like. But most Americans will agree that the case for the democracy of the present has seldom been better presented...
...issue before the American people," says MacLeish, "is not a political issue nor an issue to be decided by a public act. It is an issue between the American people and themselves. . . ." After the Battle of France, there was a fear that democracy "which had been unable to match conviction with conviction ... in France would [not] be able to match conviction with conviction elsewhere."This fear, says MacLeish, rests on "a total misconception of the democratic cause." The enemies of democracy would like us to believe that democracy is "a way of owning property, a scheme of doing business...