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Robert S. Fitzgerald '33, poet and translator, has been named Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. The prestigious chair has been vacant since Archibald MacLeish retired...
...into art backward. After a stint in U.S. Army aviation during World War I, he tried studying landscape architecture at Harvard-and found the required drawing course a dreadful bore. So he and his wife Sara sailed to the expatriate paradise of Europe. There, in the words of Archibald MacLeish, the Murphys became "masters in the art of living." Since the wine and the wit were always right, Stravinsky came to dinner, Léger showed them Paris night life, and Diaghilev invited them to his ballet...
...league company of his good friends Picasso, Leger and Braque he perceived that he "was, not going to be first-rate," so he quit art with the argument that he "couldn't stand second- rate painting." Just before he died, Murphy learned that his friend MacLeish had given his 1927 Wasp and Pear to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Murphy was greatly pleased; he had not known when he stopped painting that his art would ultimately help to link the bewildering present with the more settled past...
...Public Administration; David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; George Cabot Lodge '50, Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Division of International Activities for Central American Studies at the Business School; Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus; and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus...
...committee, whose formation was announced Tuesday, includes Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School; David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus; Don K. Price, Jr., Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration; Archibald Macleish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus; George Cabot Lodge '50, Administrative Assistant to the Director of International Activities for Central American Studies at the Business School; and Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Visiting Professor of Biology...