Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's biggest musical merchandiser. In the fiercely competitive, $400 million (retail) record market, Victor claims 25% of total sales. On the Christmas-trade counters last week Victor was pushing both a new Beecham version of Handel's Messiah and the Ames Brothers, a recording of Archibald MacLeish's J.B. and Elvis Presley's newest but possibly fading wails (see SHOW BUSINESS). Marek himself is a dedicated opera lover (among his books: The World Treasury of Grand Opera, an excellent biography of Puccini), but he is also the man responsible for an album called Classical Music...
...last two lectures of the series, "Poetry and Experience," given by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, have been cancelled because MacLeish...
...Until MacLeish's recovery, his writing course, English Sa, will be continued by Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English. Humanities 136, MacLeish's upper level General Education course, formerly given in conjunction with the lecture series, will be continued by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature...
Emily Dickinson frequently combines the abstract and the concrete in such images as "amethyst remembrance," and "the blue and gold mistake of Indian Summer," MacLeish noted. By skillful use of tone she is then able to make these sensual counterweights to her ideas seem true...
...poet of the private, inner world is both observer and actor, MacLeish continued. If his tone is false or selfconscious, his poem becomes unbearable. Emily Dickinson's poetry succeeds because she suffers but sees herself impersonally at the same time; "she is herself, and yet out of herself," MacLeish said, "dancing on the brink of self-pity, but rarely falling...