Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio last week had one of its finest hours. It was a passion play, The Son of Man, arranged by Archibald MacLeish and broadcast by the Columbia Broadcasting System...
...make the play, Poet MacLeish reverently lifted pieces from the four gospelers and from Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion. These fitted elements he reconciled into a compelling drama. And he reconciled the whole drama, in a way that has seldom been done, with the special predicaments of broadcasting...
...Poet Archibald MacLeish's Passion Play based on the four Gospels...
...difficult document in more ways than one. The first draft was written by Archibald MacLeish, the final one by Chairman Robert Maynard Hutchins and Robert D. Leigh (director of the Commission staff). In between, every line was "hammered out in conference and correspondence." What survived was, presumably, the most that all 13 could agree...
...MacLeish, a Harvard Law School graduate, first curator of the Nieman Fellows, and former Librarian of Congress, was further reported as saying that UNESCO is committed to the proposition that peoples holding opposing and conflicting views can live together if they understand each other's positions...