Word: macleish
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...strikingly modern six-story edifice that somehow blends well with the existing neoclassic buildings of the Medical School Quad-strangle in Roxbury. Principal speakers were Pusey, Dr. George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Howard S. Sprague '18, president of the Boston Medical Library, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus...
...Three of these men-MacLeish, Agee and Fitzgerald-wrote at one time or another for Time Inc. magazines...
...Boylston chair has now gone to four poets in succession: Fitzgerald's predecessors were Robert Hillyer, who retired in 1944 and died in 1961, Theodore Spencer, who died in 1949, and Archibald MacLeish, who retired in 1962. It is one of the Ivy League's most informal posts, permits its holder to make of it what he will. Fitzgerald has no doubt at all about what he intends to do with it. "I am a writer and have writing to do, and I'm going to do it," he says. He is just finishing a critical anthology...
...just when it needs it. With a larger capacity next year in the Lyceum, the aim is to build this year's 7,500 subscribers to 20,000. At Michigan in late September the company will break in three new productions: the world première of Archibald MacLeish's Heracles, Ibsen's The Wild Duck, and the Kaufman-Hart comedy You Can't Take It With You. All will be added to the current repertory for the Broadway season next year, if they work. "We are very catholic," says Rabb. "We want a diverse audience...
Like his predecessor MacLeish. Fitzgerald's career has included journalism as well as poetry. His first book, "Poems," was published in 1935 while he was a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1936 he began writing business and financial news for Time magazine. His second book. "A Wreath for the Sea," was published in 1943, the same year he left Time to serve in the U.S. Naval Reserve...