Word: macleish
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...sunk in listless dejection" or "crawled about on their knees or stood on chairs and howled." Eventually transferred to a section for the less disturbed, Pound was allowed to see visitors for two hours a day. They came by the score: Thornton Wilder, Robert Lowell, Katherine Ann Porter, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot. During the last eleven years of Pound's commitment, America's most illustrious literary salon was conducted in a madhouse...
...First on my list is R.A. d'Hulst's four volume edition of Jordaen's Drawings. My second Christmas book is Archibald MacLeish's The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn printed by Harvard Press. Also, Nicholson and Troutman's Letters of Virginia Woolf--I expect to find them under my tree Christmas morning...
...America was promises," Archibald MacLeish once sang. Those promises were easier to keep before the American invitation was issued wholesale all over Europe to meet the nation's growing demand for labor. So consider as one candidate for the best of American tunes those earlier years before the Civil War, when the Republic was agrarian. The existence of slavery counts against that time, but in the Republic's first days even many Southerners regarded slavery as "scaffolding" to be removed when the building of nationhood was complete...
...founding of America was not just a political event, the breaking away of some dissatisfied colonies from a shortsighted and selfish mother country. It was also an act of political philosophy and faith. It was a promise, as Archibald MacLeish put it, a promise to the colonists, to their descendants and to the world at large. The promise was contained in the Declaration of Independence: that people could govern themselves; that they could live in both freedom and equality; and that they would act in accord with reason-reason being a divine attribute, God's light...
STRATFORD, Conn--"There is no man in America whose words will carry farther around the earth." So wrote Archibald MacLeish, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, about Thornton Wilder, also a triple Pulitzer recipient. Yet Wilder's position in letters remains perplexing, for he is, at 78, something of a homeless and neglected...