Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize poet and former Librarian of Congress, is now being considered for the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, vacated three months ago by the death of Theodore Spencer...
...relief of his literary admirers, Archibald MacLeish dropped his wartime role of political soothsayer and returned, in some sections of Act five, to the personal lyrics he had once sung so well. From England came the apocalyptic chants of Edith Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities. Her Song of the Cold contained some good war poetry. (It was a year in which America became Sitwell conscious, and the touring Sitwells discovered America. Osbert Sitwell sketched an acid portrait of his delightfully eccentric father in Laughter in the Next Room; Sacheverell, youngest of the literary family...
...making Bartlett for the first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...
...Truman. In print, their names had an odd, ghostly air, as if they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took pen in hand and sent a letter to President Truman (published last week by the White House): "I am unqualifiedly...
President Milton Eisenhower of Kansas State College is chairman of the U.S. Commission for UNESCO. Fellow members of the fifteen-man executive committee with Smith include Archibald MacLeish, former Librarian of Congress and Assistant Secretary of State; Mrs. Douglas Horton, President of Wellesley College; and Editor Erwin D. Canban of the Christian Science Monites...