Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eleanor Roosevelt Story. "What we have to recall for ourselves," said Adlai Stevenson at her graveside, "is what she was herself. And who can name it?" This intimate, uncritical documentary is an effort to do so in film and in the feelingly written words of Archibald MacLeish, as narrated...
...MacLeish, Eric Sevareid, and Eleanor Roosevelt's first cousin and childhood friend, Mrs. Francis Cole...
...mileage became an American legend. Upon F.D.R.'s death in 1945, she told reporters, "the story is over," then went on to achieve mature distinction as a U.S. representative at the United Nations. "The figure that emerges in those last full years is without likeness in our history," MacLeish concludes. "The lonely little girl in the dark parlor had become a woman known by sight to millions of human beings and by repute to nearly all the world, a woman who stood for compassion and hope in every continent of the earth...
...become almost synonymous with all that was evil in education. During the Presidential campaign, Senator McCarthy twice made nation-wide speeches (the last on election eve in which he castigated Harvard Faculty members who supported Stevenson, particularly Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, then associate professor of History, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Racroric and Oratory. After the Eisenhower landslide, former Communist Granville Hicks, in testimony before the HUAC, gave an eyewitness' evidence that a cell of the Communist Party had indeed flourished at Harvard during the thirties. And within a week, Committee Chairman Harold Velde announced that his committee...
BROCKPORT, N.Y., Arts Festival: J.B. Archibald MacLeish's contemporary version of the Book of Job is dramatically striking and philosophically provoking as he searches for the brand of faith to sustain modern man in the face of stunning disasters...