Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside Criticism. Standards at Carleton are high; each student must take at least two years of English, science and foreign language. There are no soft majors; in mathematics, chemistry and biology, outstanding students do original research. Yet President Gould is a scientist who quotes from Archibald MacLeish's J.B. without making it appear a stunt, and the humanities at Carleton-particularly English, music and history-are if anything better than the sciences...
...committed to no creed, and more uncertain than I should be of certain ultimate beliefs, the God of Job seems closer to this generation than he has to any other in centuries." So says Poet Archibald MacLeish, 66, author of Broadway's latest hit (see THEATER). J.B. is an analogy between the Bible's searching sufferer and modern man. In the New York Times, MacLeish explains the necessities of heart and mind that led him to write the play; he also gives a moving view of his generation's despair-and hope...
...MacLeish needed "an ancient structure" on which to build a contemporary play, and the Book of Job was the only one that seemed to fit the modern situation. The drama of Job is his search for meaning behind his agony, and man today is searching for meaning behind...
Love-to Live. The successful businessman MacLeish makes of J.B. is no carbon copy of Biblical Job; for one thing, he is not as devout. But he is no better prepared than Job was for the avalanche of disasters that fall upon...
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Book of Job, MacLeish notes, is that after it is over, Job accepts his life back again, to live over again with all the hazards of pain and injustice. "And why? Because his sufferings have been justified? They have not been justified . . . Job accepts to live his life again in spite of all he knows of life, in spite of all he knows now of himself, because...