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...called Man, who, in some unassailable corner of his tarnished soul, yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Compared to Justice's rigorous goading of the individual conscience, such religiously oriented plays as Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Greene's The Potting Shed, MacLeish's J.B. and Chayevsky's Gideon seem like Communion services for the morally complacent...
Ezra Pound's cantos showed "scraps of minor classics in Greek and Latin, but not a single idea of his own." Archibald MacLeish was "a college-educated and practiced publicist trying hard to think." Frost's principal êete noire was Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology made him a literary lion in the '20s. "His new book," Frost wrote waspishly, "proves my original suspicion, not that Masters is just dead but that he was never very much alive." H. L. Mencken he dismissed as "that non-fur-bearing skunk...
...luncheon Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, addressed the Overseers, the Corporation, and their guests. Earlier in the day, Knox discussed the functions of the Center and Paul Mellon, Chairman of the Trustees of the Old Dominion Foundation, discussed the Center's inception...
Lyons was one of nine American newspapermen selected for the first Nieman fellowships in the academic year beginning September, 1938. A year later he succeeded Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish as curator of the Foundation when MacLeish was named head of the Library of Congress...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will address the Overseers, the Corporation, and their guests at a luncheon Tuesday...