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...Poet Archibald MacLeish's Passion Play based on the four Gospels...
...difficult document in more ways than one. The first draft was written by Archibald MacLeish, the final one by Chairman Robert Maynard Hutchins and Robert D. Leigh (director of the Commission staff). In between, every line was "hammered out in conference and correspondence." What survived was, presumably, the most that all 13 could agree...
...record address at the annual Eliot House Dinner last night, Archibald MacLeish discussed the problem of the reconciliation of President Truman's message on aid to Greece and Turkey with the declared purposes of the United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization...
Speaking on the eve of his departure for Paris, where he will head the United States delegation to UNESCO, MacLeish won an ovation from an initially hostile audience as he emphasized that the primary strength of this country's position must always rest on the positive affirmation of the American democratic purpose and of American democratic ideals...
...MacLeish, a Harvard Law School graduate, first curator of the Nieman Fellows, and former Librarian of Congress, was further reported as saying that UNESCO is committed to the proposition that peoples holding opposing and conflicting views can live together if they understand each other's positions...