Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MacLeish came to the Professorship in 1949, after a varied career in public affairs, which included service as Assistant Secretary of State. A native of Illinois, he graduated from Yale and from Harvard Law School and served in France in World War I. After free lance writing and a stint on the staff of Fortune Magazine, MacLeish became the first Curator of the Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at the University...
...later became chairman of the American delegation to the London conference which in 1945 established the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO. At Harvard, MacLeish also served for a year as Acting Master of Eliot House and associated with undergraduates in Leverett House, where he has kept an apartment...
...years ago MacLeish offered eight public lectures as part of his Humanities course before a packed crowd in Sanders Theatre. His recent book, Poetry and Experience, repeated the lectures, which came just after the success on Broadway of his verse play J. B. The play won MacLeish his third Pulitzer Prize. Conquistador in 1932 gave him his first Pulitzer, and Collected Poems, 1917-1952 received a Pulitzer, the Bolligen Prize, and the National Book Award...
...MacLeish's most remembered course at the College is English S, a small select seminar in creative writing...
...course, in which MacLeish annually tutored 12 selected student writers, has been called the most distinguished writing course in America. Competition among students for the 12 places each year was severe.ARCHIBALD MACLEISH...