Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Poet Archibald MacLeish's version of the Biblical Book of Job, the verse-play J.B., opened on Broadway last December (TIME, Dec. 22), viewers and reviewers have been choosing up sides to attack and defend MacLeish's Biblicism or lack of it, his humanism or his sentimentality...
...Loving" Job. In the current issue of the Century, Poet-Playwright MacLeish speaks out for himself. Whatever the opinions of scholars about the question of the Book of Job's split authorship, he takes it as a whole. The prologue in heaven is to him supremely important. Why, he asks, does God deliver the innocent Job into Satan's hands...
...Orient" (before World War II he owned a substantial fraction of metropolitan Shanghai, threw some of the wildest parties in Cathay society), scion of a family whose enormous wealth derived from the China trade (including opium in the old days), prominent figure in English turf circles, cousin of Poet-Novelist Siegfried Sassoon; and Evelyn Barnes, 39, his blonde nurse-companion; both for the first time; in Nassau...
...director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...
...Publishing several examples of a poet's work seems like a much better idea than a former Advocate one, that of printing small snatches of many poets, often not too good. With Whitbread, as with Stephen Sandy in an earlier issue, this new notion has worked out well...