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...MacLeish, Buttrick Serve...
...plan for the Eliot Drama Group was conceived with the warm approval of last year's acting master, Mr. Archibald MacLeish. The production this year has been greatly assisted by the master, Mr. John Finley. Donald Tashjian '55, Pres., Eliot Drama Group
...ceased to be a power in most of the world for the simple reason that he's said so little so badly for so long. With occasional exception, the problem has been with us since the passive 1930s. The jelly-spined intellectual was upbraided then by Archibald MacLeish in The Irresponsibles. Despite recent attempts to discredit the eggheads, we need their visionary idealism to balance standpattism; we've a lot of that. Why not persuade intellectuals to sell their wares via TV in competition with other $64,000 questions...
Archibald MacLeish, poet . . . Litt.D...
...poetry in the Commencement issue seems largely designed to prove the esoteric leanings of Advocate contributors, for three of the poems have works of art as their subjects. Jennifer MacLeish (no relation) is the most successful, possibly because her poem about the mystic love of St. Francis is simple in conception, which allows a great deal of lyric beauty. Her rhythm comes in soft waves, like the gliding of the proverbial spiritual dove, and she implements it by her visual construction, which gives the impression of ascension. While Derry Griscom's more complex poem about the sculpted figure...