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Archibald MacLeish, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor at Harvard, spoke at Commencement in 1955. He said, “The rock on which the greatest universities are founded is the rock of change, the recognition of the fact of change, and Harvard has not forgotten, nor has it ceased in its actions, to affirm, that the future will be won by those who are capable of creating the future, not by those who undertake to defend the present...
...always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad." In private he was a shade more merciful. He wrote but then urged an editor not to print a review of an Archibald MacLeish book: "It would depress and vex the poor guy and do no good...
...month or so ago Mr. MacLeish of the Office of Facts and Figures predicted that an Axis peace offensive was brewing. However that may be, rumors of an impending peace have been increasing in numbers since the early part of March...
What are the origins of these rumors? There are at least two; first, the wishes of many Americans that the war would somehow end, and second, the fine, Italian hand of the Axis propagandists. The coincidence of MacLeish's statement and the rise in peace rumors is suggestive to say the least. But Axis propaganda always works hand in hand with our own wishes and fears, so that many of these rumors are no doubt nourished by our sentiments even if planted by the Axis...
...list of literary luminaries the Vocarium attracted for recordings—including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, Robert Lowel, Archibald MacLeish and Theodore Roethke—gained widespread attention...