Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passages of Professor MacLeish's "Preliminary Statement of Purpose" for the Harvard Theatre, though very generally worded, raise uneasy questions about the degree of faculty control to be exercised in the new and more stately mansion. Even if Professor MacLeish's proposals for a permanent director and standing committee of the faculty to run the theatre are adopted, the new theatre should be run according to the same general policy as the present ones...
...past few theater seasons in Cambridge have been as artistically exciting as any in the memory of most of its inhabitants. "The Harvard Theater," says the MacLeish statement, "is to be an educational facility," and recent seasons have been educational, too, even by the most Dryasdust standards: the last two of the four examples given above are on the reading lists of courses given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Moreover, Harvard productions have been the center of admiring attention at the Yale Drama Festivals...
...able to reject plays unless "it is satisfied that the plays proposed meet the standards this university should maintain." "Proposals for the production of plays may originate with student groups, with members of the University faculties, with members of the Cambridge community or with the standing committee." If Professor MacLeish's statement is adopted, the faculty and its committee should use these powers of proposing and rejecting with discretion, i.e. seldom or never, keeping them in reserve should emergencies occur or spontaneous student interest decline...
Accompanying a motion to dismiss treason charges against Ezra Pound had come an impassioned plea from a fellow poet. Wrote Robert Frost: "I feel authorized to speak very specially for my friends, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot. None of us can bear the disgrace of letting Ezra Pound come to an end where...
...report, titled "Preliminary Statement of Purposes--The Harvard Theatre," was written by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, for the Faculty Committee on the Theatre...