Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Harry T. Levin, professor of English; and Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English; all greeted the news with only slightly diluted enthusiasm...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, declared that the American mind today is "divided by bitterness unequaled since the War Between the States," in a speech in Washington, D.C., Saturday night...
Speaking before the Jewish Anti-Defamation League conference, MacLeish described an antagonism that goes to the root of American life. He defined the two schools of thought produced by this antagonism as, "those who define patriotism in anti-Russian terms, and those who judge patriotism by devotion to the cause of individual liberty...
...nation's condemnation of the practices and doctrines of Russia "was understandable enough," MacLeish said. But he added a warning against those who would "sacrifice to their hatred of Russia the heart of what America is--the freedom of the individual mind and soul and conscience...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, said last night: "There is no way of measuring a loss like this. Thomas was one of the few truly creative gifts our time has seen: not even he himself could have guessed what work he had still...