Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize Poet, Will give a public reading of his poems in the New Lecture Hall at 4:30 o'clock on Wednesday, under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
...MacLeish, has had a varied career as a poet, journalist, and government official. He was Librarian of Congress before the war, and served during the war in the Office of War Information...
Dickey's pet project is the Great Issues course which is required of all seniors. Designed to bring the foundation knowledge of the first three college years into sharp focus on the great national and international problems of the world. Great Issues offers lecturers like Archibald MacLeish. Lewis Mumford, and President Conant. It gives the men of Dartmouth a common cultural experience to match the enthusiastic social solidarity fostered by for years of living and working together in Hanover...
...uncashed money orders had been temporarily lost in the piles. That was when President McKinley picked a scholarly lawyer-librarian named Herbert Putnam to straighten things out. This week, eight Presidents later, Librarian Emeritus Putnam at 85 still showed up every day at the office, though first Archibald MacLeish (in 1939) and then Evans (in 1945) had taken over the main...
...idea," explained MacLeish, "that the radio way to do this thing was to let the four voices of the gospelers tell the story in their own words.* That way, by a frequent shift of voices, dramatic interest could be kept up, and the broadest sense of the witness could be conveyed." To connect, extend and impel the tragedy, he added the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...