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Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, declared that the American mind today is "divided by bitterness unequaled since the War Between the States," in a speech in Washington, D.C., Saturday night...
Speaking before the Jewish Anti-Defamation League conference, MacLeish described an antagonism that goes to the root of American life. He defined the two schools of thought produced by this antagonism as, "those who define patriotism in anti-Russian terms, and those who judge patriotism by devotion to the cause of individual liberty...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, said last night: "There is no way of measuring a loss like this. Thomas was one of the few truly creative gifts our time has seen: not even he himself could have guessed what work he had still...
...former Ibis of the Lampoon, Charles Bracelen Flood '51 began his novel in Professor MacLeish's course, writing about the world he knows best--an exclusive milieu of Oyster Bay, Marlborough Street, Northeast Harbor. Mr. Flood is too much a product of this world to be rewarding to critics intent on the game of pinning the tale on other authors. Except for a brief glimpse of the Tycoon in his Wall Street lair, there is no trace of Fitzgerald's awe in the book's pictures of the twenties. Nor does Mr. Flood have any of Marquand Sr.'s quiet...
Both plays are stimulating and satisfying; the sheer beauty of a great part of the writing is enough to smooth any rough spots in the mechanics of production. The Poet's group and Mr. MacLeish have formed a mutually profitable association...