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...become almost synonymous with all that was evil in education. During the Presidential campaign, Senator McCarthy twice made nation-wide speeches (the last on election eve in which he castigated Harvard Faculty members who supported Stevenson, particularly Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, then associate professor of History, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Racroric and Oratory. After the Eisenhower landslide, former Communist Granville Hicks, in testimony before the HUAC, gave an eyewitness' evidence that a cell of the Communist Party had indeed flourished at Harvard during the thirties. And within a week, Committee Chairman Harold Velde announced that his committee...
BROCKPORT, N.Y., Arts Festival: J.B. Archibald MacLeish's contemporary version of the Book of Job is dramatically striking and philosophically provoking as he searches for the brand of faith to sustain modern man in the face of stunning disasters...
...become almost synonymous with all that was evil in education. During the Presidential campaign, Senator McCarthy twice made nation-wide speeches (the last on election eve in which he castigated Harvard Faculty members who supported Stevenson, particularly Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, then associate professor of History, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. After the Eisenhower landslide, former Communist Granville Hicks, in testimony before the HUAC, gave an eyewitness' evidence that a cell of the Communist Party had indeed flourished at Harvard during the thirties. And within a week, Committee Chairman Harold Velde announced that his committee...
...fact "overreacted," without provocation; that the rebels in Santo Domingo represent a legitimate democratic revolution. "On the evidence presented so far," wrote Notre Dame History Professor Samuel Shapiro in the Nation, "the Dominican revolution is no more Communist-controlled than the C.I.O. or the civil rights movement." Poet Archibald MacLeish attributed the U.S. response to "the old myopia of the McCarthy days." On more realistic grounds, a number of experts concede that the intervention may have been justified, but they object that by acting "unilaterally" and in violation of the OAS charter, the U.S. irreparably damaged its standing in Latin...
...Finally, MacLeish, a former Librarian of Congress, spoke gracefully of the problems of a scientific library in the face of growing difficulties of communication among scientists. He pointed out that the coherence of a library depends upon the coherence of the knowledge it problems and that the apparent fragmentation of scientific knowledge poses a serious intellectual problem...