Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Apollo 8 spacecraft. Lovell, now a corporate executive in Chicago, describes the event in a charming mix of metaphors: "It was the final bright star in the last gasp of 1968." The messy earth looked different from a distance, "that bright loveliness in the eternal cold," as Archibald MacLeish wrote...
Tuesday night some of those playwrites, critics and groupies of the theater company, eulogized this fixture of Cambridge's cultural past. Besides Alfred's works, the company has staged plays by the likes of Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren and Archibald MacLeish...
...abundance of lore about the OSS has long since surfaced: how Lawyer Bill Donovan, a heroic World War I officer, jury-rigged the intelligence agency President Franklin Roosevelt wanted by recruiting an elite of socialites (Polo Player Raymond Guest), millionaires (Paul Mellon), intellectuals (Archibald Macleish), journalists (Stewart Alsop) and performers (Sterling Hayden). How the OSS got to be twitted as "Oh-So-Social." How it nurtured such future CIA leaders as Richard Helms, Angleton and Casey...
Heaney, a visiting senior lecturer on English since 1981, follows the likes of John Quincy Adams, Archibald MacLeish, and Robert Fitzgerald in the Boylston chair, which was founded early in the 19th century...
...That sort of throwaway irony seems worthier of an Oscar Wilde epigram than a meditation on a profound theme. The Book of Job has haunted writings as disparate as Mark Twain's novel The Mysterious Stranger, Robert Frost's verse drama A Masque of Reason and Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. It requires more than bursts of wit and flashes of illumination...