Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacLeish's poetry is tremendously powerful and his heightened richness of speech creates a very moving play, which is well worth seeing for its language as well as for its acting...
This week Tufts offers two verse dramas by the distinguished poet, Archibald MacLeish...
...MacLeish uses the ancient legend to criticize the tactics used by Senator Joseph McCarthy, in his Congressional investigations. He warnes Americans that "in adopting the tactics of the enemy and in branding as traitors those who try to reason with us, we haul within our gates the agent of our own destruction. Americans, as well as Trojans, can mistake a monster for a God ..." forgetting that patriotism must involve intelligent questioning, rather than passive acceptance or conformity...
...state's junior colleges, lifetime opponent of the teachings of Philosopher John Dewey. While a student at the University of Chicago in 1896, where Dewey held sway over the philosophy department, Eby was assigned to teach Dewey-style manual training to a four-year-old lad named Archibald MacLeish. Soon disillusioned ("A good thing Archie didn't catch on; he might have become a carpenter instead of a poet"), Eby declared his independence of the master by taking a course in Christian ethics rather than Dewey's course in pragmatic philosophy. In 1909 he landed at Texas...
...introduced by last year's Award-winner, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who said that we should not worry too much about the meaning of cummings' poems, that "a poem is apprehended in the ear." He termed cummings "one of the few pure lyric voices of our time." It is true that cummings reads very musically and slowly, relishing every syllable whether it means anything or not. The best impression was made by his poem "Thanksgiving: 1956," in which he denounced the official apathy of our government during the Hungarian crisis. Still, cummings is far from being...