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PHILADELPHIA vs. EDMONTON: Despite a mild late-season slump, tough-guy turned coach-of-the-year candidate Pat Quinn and his charges, led by a core of reliable veterans (Barber, Clarke, Leach, MacLeish (and blossoming youngsters (Linseman, Propp), topped the NHL. Oilers have the Great Gretzky but not the retzky, yet will snatch a win on home ice to lose in four...
...intelligent voice or its reputation for literary excellence. Except for The New Yorker, it remains the foremost showcase for serious fiction and poetry in the U.S. Among recent contributors: John Earth, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Joyce Carol Gates and John Gardner. The March issue features an essay by Archibald MacLeish, a memoir by Isaac Bashevis Singer and a poem by Robert Perm Warren...
...historian (Amherst College): Linus Pauling has provided leadership in an almost 18th century fashion by combining great distinction in scientific inquiry and in the moral arena. The second figure who has steadily, over a long and distinguished career, held up to our people a spectacle of greatness is Archibald MacLeish. He has inspired generations of Americans to a love of literature and of philosophy...
Getting Out. This is a tale of an orphan of despair, released from jail but not from the cage of her younger mutinous self. Balanced between torment and valiance, Susan Kingsley, an actress of kinetic authority, exemplifies what Archibald MacLeish once said of poetry: "A poem should not mean...
...babies were named Apollo. Millions of people clung to their radios and television sets, and newspapers broke out their largest type. Though beaten in the race to the moon, even the Russians joined in the worldwide chorus of acclaim, wishing the space travelers a safe homecoming. Rhapsodized Poet Archibald MacLeish: O silver evasion in our farthest thought- "the visiting moon"... "the glimpses of the moon"... and we have touched...