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...academic acclaim as one of the nation's most lucid authorities on freedom of the press and civil liberties. A classmate of the late Senator Robert Taft at Harvard Law School, Chafee later joined the faculty to find himself teaching such promising young men as Dean Acheson, Archibald MacLeish, Joseph N. Welch and Kenneth Royall, was so handy with the apt anecdote that he became known as "the Scheherazade of the law school." He gradually emerged as the calm and persuasive crusader against all temptations to curb the free interplay of ideas. "I am," he said...
...Festival Poetry Prize this year deservedly went to Archibald MacLeish, Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. On June 17 a large crowd turned out to hear him read from his works. The featured item was a deeply felt and thoughtful poem expressly written on the occasion of the 1956 Festival...
Poet Archibald MacLeish, bucking the pessimistic tide that often damns man's material progress, dashed off a ten-stanza Poem in a Festival of Art in Boston at the Public Garden, then headed there to read it. Gist of Poem: "Is it the city or heart that's wrong . . . / O hush! There is a silence in this place, / For all the chattering gears that grind, a grace / Of present expectation in this ground . . . / No city stands but is the image of the heart...
...American life, which decided the University to take an active part in the Festival, giving over Sanders Theatre to the group. Indeed, among the trustees of the festival are such Harvard professors as Reuben A. Brower, Robert Chapman, Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, Harry T. Levin '33, and Archibald MacLeish. The interest of these men, and of the University, is focused on the possibilities of making the Festival a really important event, with internationally known theatrical figures coming to Cambridge and not only participating in the productions, but also taking an active part in the life of the Summer School...
...informal policy advisors group since '54 are John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics who is out of the country now; Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Business Administration who will retire at the end of the year; Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government; and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, on sabbatical leave...