Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Poet Archibald MacLeish's version of the Biblical Book of Job, the verse-play J.B., opened on Broadway last December (TIME, Dec. 22), viewers and reviewers have been choosing up sides to attack and defend MacLeish's Biblicism or lack of it, his humanism or his sentimentality...
...design" in its widest sense; and consequently the students play with three dimensional wire models, geometric patterns, and metal masks. The presence of a first rate artist directing the courses is note-worthy; it is comparable in kind, if perhaps not in degree, to the writing courses of MacLeish and the composition courses of Piston...
...poetic interpretations of human destiny," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday received an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University of Pittsburgh...
...MacLeish "has touched the lives of millions with beauty and poetic truth," the citation accompanying the degree said. "In his public career he has exemplified that same high sense of civic responsibility and human dignity which has marked his writing. As librarian of our national Library of Congress, as leader in the creation of UNESCO, he has exercised a profound influence on the intellectual life of our time...
...Bible and into modern dress with Job. An added tribulation is the flatness of some of Archibald MacLeish's poetry and dramaturgy, but all in all the evening is richly rewarding...