Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poet and Librarian of Congress MacLeish recently blamed himself & other U. S. writers for: 1. Aping British novelists of the Hardy school. 2. Not having written a great American saga. 3. "Glorifying filth" in American literature. 4. Making cynical pacifists of today's undergraduates. 5. Not adopting Gertrude Stein's style...
...references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped-and hindered-truth-telling and liberty. On the angels' side, among others, are Prometheus, Jesus Christ, and the old Rev. John. On the other side may be found Cain, Stalin and Archibald MacLeish...
...culture inferred last spring that the Word was more important than the truth, when he scored the post war writers for the effect of their work, although he could not deny the validity of the picture they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular dogma. If we have learned an unpleasant fact which does not fit with our sympathies then we are to unlearn it as quickly as possible. The Yale News...
Delegates proceeded to examine problems from the fifth column to foreign trade, heard themselves scolded for cynicism and "disgusted detachment" by Speakers Neilson, MacLeish, et al., skirmished with a few members of the American Student Union and American Youth Congress who had gone to bore from within. By week's end the delegates had succeeded in squelching these noisy spokesmen, went off to their colleges steamed up to start forums on world problems...
President Conant, Archibald MacLeish, Raymond Gram Swing, and dozens of other educators and writers have had a shot during the past six months at explaining what's the matter with the American undergraduate. Two newcomers join their ranks this month: Mortimer Adler, Chicago professor, St. John's enthusiast, and author of "How to Read a Book"; and Paul P. Cram, straw-boss of History...