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...value of the printed book as a medium for dissent was emphasized by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, in an article in yesterday's New York Times Book Review Magazine...
...introduction to a critique of the eighty-fifth to ninety-fifth Cantos of Ezra Pound, MacLeish deplored the tendency of modern mass communication to express only the obvious, because of the need to cater to the "mental mass." The recent gains of such mass media might indicate the death knell for the printing press, he continued, except for the growing importance of books for expression of dissent...
...dissenter, which MacLeish defined as "every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself," has nowhere else to go but the printed book to set forth his dissent, MacLeish concluded...
True Cross Section. Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn taught at Brandeis until his death in January. Columnist Max Lerner and Critic Louis Kronenberger commute from Manhattan to give courses. E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish and W. H. Auden have lectured on modern poetry, and such theater celebrities as Marc Con nelly and Arthur Miller have taught contemporary drama. "A school," says Sachar, "is not a curricular philosophy. It is the people you bring...
...puts it. He lost by 35 votes. When war broke out in December, he tried to volunteer for military service, but was turned down because he was underweight and his eyes were weak. Disappointed in his wish to see combat, he was recruited by an old family friend, Archibald MacLeish, to serve with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charles Poore, and E. B. White in "that magnificent stable of writers," the Office of Facts and Figures. For seven months in 1942, Bundy wrote what he calls obscure pamphlet propaganda in Washington, meanwhile reportedly eating bananas and carrots and keeping himself...