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...greater or lesser degree in most of the other pieces, but which is most effective in these two. There are a few more of these simple poems which for some reason don't quite come off; one which vaguely tries to describe the creative process, somewhat like MacLeish's Ars Poetica, and is similarly feeble, and another which uses love and the sand and the sea to point out a slightly commonplace bitter-sweet moral...
...YORK, May 4--Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for drama today with his first play, "J.B.," a modern rendition of the Biblical story...
Last month the work won the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the year's best play. MacLeish, former librarian of Congress, won Pulitzer prizes for poetry...
...James Joyce's Ulysses was declared literature by Federal Judge John M. Woolsey in 1933. Into the bookshops goes an unexpurgated edition (Grove Press; 368 pp.; $6), the first ever published in the U.S. It comes forearmed with assurances by pundits (Edmund Wilson, Jacques Barzun, Mark Schorer, Archibald MacLeish) that Lady Chatterley is not only a decent but an important book. And the publishers, listening for the bugling of the censorship hounds, are ready with an advance printing of 30,000 copies...
...guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater...