Word: macleish
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...with the Questions. Predictably, Sessions' piece was the most substantial -a difficult "and blazing work, brilliantly played by Violinist Polikoff himself. By contrast, Alexander's Songs for Eve was a plodding and undramatic vocal presentation of texts by Archibald MacLeish around which four accompanying instruments (violin, cello, English horn, harp) weave contrasting sonorities in a striking instrumental texture. Calabro's Sonata and Overton's Quartet were both professional jobs, but more interesting in their smoothly machined parts than in their bland conclusions...
...instances J.B. by Archibald MacLeish and Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams, "in both of which a great many drums are beaten, but you're not sure what the drums are summoning you for... If the play has a big enough theme, and is well enough directed--excitingly enough directed--I think there is a tendency to equate that with a masterpiece...
...which produced Brendan Behan. "And the great thing about it," he says, "is that it is being supported by young people." The plays of this new group are being largely written, directed, and watched by people under thirty, while "the kind of people who go for the Kazan-Williams-MacLeish group tend to be middle-aged...
...Loving" Job. In the current issue of the Century, Poet-Playwright MacLeish speaks out for himself. Whatever the opinions of scholars about the question of the Book of Job's split authorship, he takes it as a whole. The prologue in heaven is to him supremely important. Why, he asks, does God deliver the innocent Job into Satan's hands...
...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...