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...Doren and his wife now reside in the apartment on the top floor of Leverett House's F tower once occupied by his old friend, Archibald MacLeish. After talking for more than an hour one morning last week Van Doren arose and went over to the window, which overlooks the Charles, the Business School, and other local phenomena...
Died. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 86, Yale's great teacher of English literature (among his students: Stephen Vincent Benet, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish. Thornton Wilder) and the university's keeper of rare books, world-renowned for his 1925 discovery of a supposedly destroyed collection of Boswell papers; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Tink's literary sleuthing uncovered the papers in Ireland's Malahide Castle, but he was unable to persuade Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson, to part with the vast trove. It remained for Lieut...
Presbyopia Solemnizations. Midcult authors, writes Macdonald, exploit the discoveries of avant-garde authors. Thus, their works have an apparent profundity when they are only pretentious. Macdonald's favorite Midcult writers include Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, JP. Marquand, Archibald MacLeish, and even Ernest Hemingway, or at least much of his writing. His prize examples of Midcult are James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, with its convoluted prose and jawbreaking Latinisms like "solemnization" and "presbyopic," and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with its fuzzy philosophizing: "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every...
Miller is very fond of Guerard. "I never saw a man who could inspire a writer to write, and inspire a certain love, too. He is an extraordinary teacher." As an undergraduate at Harvard, Miller took writing courses from Guerard, Archibald MacLeish, and Monroe Engel. He was part of a group of active writers in Cambridge at that time, which included Dale Harris, Sally Bingham, Jonathan Kozol and Arthur Kopit. They were all in the same courses together, he recalls, and stimulated each other to do better and better work...
Archibald MacLeish: His "delicate lyric gift" resulted in smoothly beautiful and simple early poems. But he soon "began to make overpowering demands upon this limited and specific talent . . . much of MacLeish's later work is the public speech of an authoritative public figure who is controlling the responses of a mass audience ... It is almost more conscious of the impressiveness of what it says than of what it says...