Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Additional light was thrown last night on the plannings and discussions concerning the problem of a Harvard theatre. Harry Levin '33, professor of English and Comparative Literature, revealed that a Faculty Committee on Theatre, including Levin, Archibald MacLeish, Jose L. Sert, dean of the Faculty of Design, and Dean Bundy, has considered this problem for quite some time...
...June, in accordance with conditions of the award, MacLeish will read a "new work on the occasion of the festival...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will receive the 1956 Boston Arts Festival poetry award at the annual festival this June. The award, carrying a stipend of $500, is given to a contemporary poet who has made extensive contributions to the art, or has distinguished himself through a recent work...
...spiritually impotent because we have cut ourselves off from the poem," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of English and Rhetoric, declared in the March Atlantic Monthly...
...MacLeish, who is on leave in the Virgin Islands, went on to maintain that through poetry we reach a concrete understanding of experiences, as distinguished from the abstract knowledge which the sciences present. Thus we can understand the ends of our actions, as well as their means, he said...