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Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, has decided to postpone his retirement for at least one more year, he disclosed yesterday...
...primarily a writer, not a teacher," MacLeish said, "but I have great feeling for my attachment with the University." MacLeish, who came to Harvard in 1949, is currently in his eleventh year on the Faculty. Now 67, he reached possible retirement age two years...
Next month, NBC will present Secret of Freedom, a television play which MacLeish wrote recently...
...Professor MacLeish's third lecture on poetry that saved him. Like the Renaissance discovering the Greeks, like Goethe discovering Shakespeare, like the nineteenth century discovering nature, Harrison discovered Oriental poetry. He had run across the cryptic, ordered verses of the haiku before in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums; but since he had read the novel for sex (it was disappointing) their beauty had escaped him. Now, however, he was fascinated with the idea of three line verses which did not require grammar, meter, rhyme, or even logical progression. As Harrison told his roommate after the lecture, "All you gotta...
Disturbed by the questions of several members of the audience as to control policies and financial advantages of the Loeb, MacLeish mentioned lightly that he "almost detected an undertone that we should never have built the theatre...