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...personalities who were invited to argue both sides of the question. More than a dozen dissertations were printed, and each side got fair play. Among those critical of the Times were Senator Barry Goldwater, General Maxwell Taylor and Harvard Law Professor Roger Fisher. Times defenders included Poet-Playwright Archibald MacLeish, M.I.T. Professor Noam Chomsky and former White House Adviser Arthur Schlesinger...
...politics as a Senator, Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1960, and ambassador to the United Nations and South Viet Nam. During the 1920s and '30s, our masthead was graced by the presence of Novelists John O'Hara and Frank Norris, Poets Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish. Theodore White, Robert Sherrod and John Hersey were TIME correspondents during World War II. Poet-Critic James Agee gained his first measure of fame as our longtime movie reviewer...
...mischief from corrupting grammar to corrupting minors. But the decline and fall of the republic has seldom been laid at his study door. Nobody has flattered a man of letters by calling him a major danger to the state since the time during World War II when Archibald MacLeish, Van Wyck Brooks and others accused T.S. Eliot & Co. of demoralizing the fighters for democracy by having scribbled so depressingly about the "Waste Land" 20 years before...
...more personal level, Borman explained that when he looked back at the earth from outer space, he realized the meaning of Archibald MacLeish's line, "We're riders on the earth together...
Americans will undoubtedly continue to summon the Guard and rant at Government; the impulses to do so are endemic and some situations permit no alternative. What MacLeish pointed out is the need for a deeper readjustment of society-a rediscovery of and renewal of affection for such old-fashioned virtues as tolerance and forbearance. Just as the U.S. and Russia have developed a coexistence, however tentative, those edging toward the poles of American society must learn to live with each other in the knowledge that if they do not, either can destroy everything for both...