Word: macleish
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...Archibald MacLeish...
...cabbage green, and lugging three scrapbooks of poems with their rejection slips from The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. His four years in Cambridge were marked by a series of triumphs, marred only by his failure three times running to get accepted into Poet Archibald MacLeish's creative-writing seminar. He poured his energies into the Lampoon, the undergraduate humor magazine. At the end of his sophomore year, he met a fine-arts major at Radcliffe named Mary Pennington, two years his senior and the daughter of a Unitarian minister in Chicago. "I courted...
...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts is the TV premiere of Poet Archibald MacLeish's play, which was written for his hometown's bicentennial celebration last June. It deals with a boy who hates living in Conway and wants to leave town forever. By getting him to examine and evaluate the town's past, MacLeish re-creates the major events of Conway's history...
...Theatre was originally founded in 1950 by a group including Archibald MacLeish, Harold L. Levin '30, and Thornton Wilder. It produced original plays including Hogan's Goat by Alfred, and was the first American theatre to produce Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood...
...authoritarian tyrant who is absolutely confident of his own infallibility. The Creon of Anouilh-Carnovsky is quite different. We even learn that in his youth "he loved music, bought rare manuscripts, was a kind of art patron." But now he has become the sort of person against whom Archibald MacLeish has just warned us: "Man in the electronic age is not a votary of the arts--he has more serious business. He sees himself, whatever his economic system, as a social and scientific animal, the great unraveler of the universe, its potential master, and his tool is not the sculptor...