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Founded by Archibald MacLeish, the radio stations, included in which is the third year of steady growth. Through its regular College outlet, the Crimson Network, the group now produces an original broadcast every week, and has become the first extra-curricular organization to have its work recognized by the Faculty. The English A and A-1 departments have recently indicated their willingness to give credit for Workshop plays...
When poet Archibald MacLeish founded the Harvard Radio Workshop, he expected undergraduates to get from this experimental group the experience which, as much as talent, is needed to break into network scripting. But FDR called Archy to Washington, and the Radio Workshop like other creative groups in the College was left with little Faculty contact or support. True to its traditions, it seemed that the English Department was about to tell radio drama (as it once told Professor Baker's stage drama) to go to Yale...
...American Cause finds Poet Mac Leish even farther from the Finland Station. In view of his relations with the White House, it is almost an official statement of the case for democracy. Quibblers may experience an uneasy wish that MacLeish had been a little more explicit as to what the democracy of the future will look like. But most Americans will agree that the case for the democracy of the present has seldom been better presented...
...issue before the American people," says MacLeish, "is not a political issue nor an issue to be decided by a public act. It is an issue between the American people and themselves. . . ." After the Battle of France, there was a fear that democracy "which had been unable to match conviction with conviction ... in France would [not] be able to match conviction with conviction elsewhere."This fear, says MacLeish, rests on "a total misconception of the democratic cause." The enemies of democracy would like us to believe that democracy is "a way of owning property, a scheme of doing business...
...democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. . . . What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only . . . that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold." Such democracy, promises Librarian MacLeish, "is a cause for which the stones themselves will fight...