Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this spirit that the National Committee for an Effective Congress (among its better-known leaders are Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger. father of White House Staffer Arthur Jr., Poet Archibald MacLeish, Harvard Law Professor Mark De Wolfe Howe, Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau) last week issued an unusual public report that amounted to a devastating blast against Teddy and an audible tut-tut at his big brother...
...were Mark Van Doren and Archibald MacLeish, and they talked of retirement, death, poetry, and life. Van Doren said he sometimes "finds it nice to do nothing at all;" a feeling he will share with MacLeish, who was, in his words, "retired for senility" a few weeks ago from his position of Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard...
...MacLeish asked his friends for advice on the ending of a new play, on which he has been working for three years. "I know the actors," he said, "and their relations to each other; and I feel the end will be just wonderful, when...
...problem stumping MacLeish is that he is not certain about "the feelings of the characters for the myth within which they moving." The new play, he said, will employ the same four-beat line...
...Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS is experimenting with a new technique in this program, one of a four-part series. The two men ramble around Mac-Leish's farm at Conway, Mass., and talk about anything that comes into their poetic brains-without the aid (or interference) of a network commentator...