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Archibald Macleish, an associate of Leverett House and a well-known poet, is also concerned with Koirala. He sent a letter to the Nepalese government earlier this year urging Koirala's release...
...autumn is a blatantly vital season, contrary to the allegations of sorrowful poets who misconstrue the message of dying leaves. A more realistic poet, Archibald MacLeish, says that "Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen...
David Mamet, unlike the grunting, inarticulate characters he puts on the stage in American Buffalo, is as wordy as Webster's. In the course of conversation, the 29-year-old playwright can ornament his speeches with quotes from Tolstoy, Archibald MacLeish, Karl Marx, Voltaire, Jesus or Stanislavsky...
...Paris to escape the scorn and--even less endurable--dullness of Boston. Harry soon gave up all pretense of banking and decided to become a poet-genius. But it was his wealth and flamboyance which brought him into contact with such authentic literary personages as Hart Crane, Archibald MacLeish, Hemingway, Lawrence and Joyce, some of whose works he later published in his Black Sun Press...
...explanation: Crosby wrote poetry. Boston seemed to blame temporary insanity, dating the onset from 1922, when he quit his job with the Morgan bank in Paris, took up the literary life there and renamed his wife, Polly Peabody, "Caresse." His writer friends-he knew Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Kay Boyle-were not surprised by the toenail paint or the tattoos. Harry did that sort of thing. What did raise an eyebrow or two, briefly, was the suicide. It seemed that Harry meant what he had said...