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...story most famously told in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Some of the photographs are exceedingly good; some are merely "magnificent" - over-filtered, overdramatized. Even so, the whole selection considerably excels that in the Caldwell-Bourke-White collaboration, You Have Seen Their Faces, or in Archibald MacLeish's poem with photographs, Land of the Free. The text has dignity and is compactly informative. Many of the captions are direct quotations-their strong immediacy undermined by the tear-jerking inherent in dialect re-used by sophisticates...
...names Dean Landis; Heinrich Bruening, professor of Public Administration; Felix Frankfurter, then a member of the Law School faculty and now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; Granville Hicks, at that time Counselor in American History; and Archibald MacLeish, whom he describes as "a sort of a liaison officer between us and the University," since then appointed Librarian of Congress, as among the most stimulating professors with whom the Fellows came in contact...
...hour; best fun, Fred Allen's; best melodrama, Gang Busters' dramatization of Bank Robber Eddie Doll's career; best children's shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus disaster; best news commentators, H. V. Kaltenborn, Raymond Gram Swing...
Archibald MacLeish, former curator of the Nieman Collection and now Librarian of Congress, presented a manuscript copy of his volume, "The Hamlet of A. MacLeish," while Crown Prince Gustav Adolphus of Sweden as well as the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway presented books...
...given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer. Anderson is the most flatulent and pretentious of U. S. dramatists because he seldom does justice to his grandiose conceptions. The verse of Key Largo will not stand comparison with such contemporary dramatic poetry as T. S. Eliot's or Archibald MacLeish's. So little feeling, indeed, has Anderson for fit words that his people talk like stilted schoolmasters as well as windy poets : a businessman, for example, refers to gangsters as "banditti." Worst of all, Anderson cannot deal sharply with ideas. The conflict of ideas in Key Largo becomes swamped...