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Students who became aware of this discrepancy immediately started circulating wild tales, even one to the effect that some clever fellow had hoodwinked the Harvard proctors by forging a "personal" note from Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and lecturer in the course...
APRIL. A Radcliffe girl is arrested for holding up the bank previously looted by an MIT student. She will explain, "I lust for experience" and then hang bullfight posters in her cell. Archibald MacLeish will volunteer his services to the football team claiming that "poetry should be brought to motion." Elsie buys out the Business School...
...MacLeish is denied in a cryptic note from the Athletic Department. The note said, "Football Is." Cambridge begins work on snow clearance. Washington receives an apologetic letter from Perry Miller for having harpooned the satellite. On the international scene, the Harvard Conservative Club will invade Hungary and return after shaking hands with Janos Kadar. They will declare that the true conservative is a revolutionary. Russia, in a new era of Stalinism, will declare Rock 'n Roll "reactionary...
...Archibald Mac-Leish, now a Harvard professor of literature, tipped his mortarboard-with reservations-to Fascist-embracing Poet Ezra Pound and his eleven latest Cantos, composed in the Washington hospital where Pound has spent eleven years as a mental patient, adjudged unfit to be tried for treason in 1945. MacLeish freely admits: "Some of his dissents have been merely strident: his raging at Roosevelt throughout the Cantos sounds as though it had been composed by Fulton Lewis Jr., and his attacks on Churchill and Leon Blum are in the vocabulary of the Nazi radio." To Poet MacLeish, however, the redeeming...
Many of us consider Miss McKenna the finest actress to be seen anywhere on the stage today. Archibald MacLeish, in his brief but beautifully phrased introductory remarks, welcomed her back to Sanders, "where her voice still rings from last summer," and presented her not only as a great actress but also as a scholar. She began by mentioning Sanders as the site of "my own favorite performances of my own favorite part," and then commenced her readings of Irish poetry, interlarded with informal commentary...