Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer-prizewinning play about Job in the guise of a modern American businessman. The language and the logic are a trifle threadbare, but the evening is richly cloaked in theatrical excitement...
...Poet Archibald MacLeish has retried Job in the guise of a modern American businessman. A little thin in eloquence and logic, but richly exciting theater...
...greater or lesser degree in most of the other pieces, but which is most effective in these two. There are a few more of these simple poems which for some reason don't quite come off; one which vaguely tries to describe the creative process, somewhat like MacLeish's Ars Poetica, and is similarly feeble, and another which uses love and the sand and the sea to point out a slightly commonplace bitter-sweet moral...
...YORK, May 4--Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for drama today with his first play, "J.B.," a modern rendition of the Biblical story...
Last month the work won the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the year's best play. MacLeish, former librarian of Congress, won Pulitzer prizes for poetry...