Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archibald Mac-Leish, now a Harvard professor of literature, tipped his mortarboard-with reservations-to Fascist-embracing Poet Ezra Pound and his eleven latest Cantos, composed in the Washington hospital where Pound has spent eleven years as a mental patient, adjudged unfit to be tried for treason in 1945. MacLeish freely admits: "Some of his dissents have been merely strident: his raging at Roosevelt throughout the Cantos sounds as though it had been composed by Fulton Lewis Jr., and his attacks on Churchill and Leon Blum are in the vocabulary of the Nazi radio." To Poet MacLeish, however, the redeeming...
Many of us consider Miss McKenna the finest actress to be seen anywhere on the stage today. Archibald MacLeish, in his brief but beautifully phrased introductory remarks, welcomed her back to Sanders, "where her voice still rings from last summer," and presented her not only as a great actress but also as a scholar. She began by mentioning Sanders as the site of "my own favorite performances of my own favorite part," and then commenced her readings of Irish poetry, interlarded with informal commentary...
...value of the printed book as a medium for dissent was emphasized by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, in an article in yesterday's New York Times Book Review Magazine...
...introduction to a critique of the eighty-fifth to ninety-fifth Cantos of Ezra Pound, MacLeish deplored the tendency of modern mass communication to express only the obvious, because of the need to cater to the "mental mass." The recent gains of such mass media might indicate the death knell for the printing press, he continued, except for the growing importance of books for expression of dissent...
...dissenter, which MacLeish defined as "every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself," has nowhere else to go but the printed book to set forth his dissent, MacLeish concluded...