Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prestigious Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, vacated by the announced retirement of Archibald MacLeish, will probably not be filled within the next two years, according to W. J. Bate, Chairman of the Department of English...
Bate said that the Administration is normally not reluctant to leave important chairs vacant during an extended period in order to find the right occupant. MacLeish retires officially this June, but will devote the Spring term to his own writing, as he had done for several years...
...last half century, the Boylston Professor has taught an advanced writing course in the English Department. Among MacLeish's predecessors have been John Quincy Adams, later sixth President of the United States; Edward Tyrell Channing, founder of the North American Review; Francis James Child, who introduced the study of English literature in America; LeBaron Russell Briggs, a great Dean of the College; and Charles Townsend Copeland, the renowned "Copey...
This flawed ending echoes the flawed conclusion in Broadway's J.B. of three years ago; both Playwrights MacLeish and Chayefsky assume that man has somehow outgrown God and must evolve a higher morality. They deny that the end of man is to glorify God and seem to agree that man must express, sanction, and glorify himself. Paradoxically, the denial and doubt of God have led not to the affirmation of man but to his greater despair. For it is despair from which such questing morality plays as J.B. and Gideon seem to spring...
...jingly sentimentality I award that the 1961 Archibald MacLeish prize, a brass loving cup inscribed "Blow on the coal of the heart...