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...McLeish is something of a saint in the American theatre, and deservedly, so. In J.B., he makes his meaning clear and lilting for an audience with or without the biblical background. Job--J.B.--starts off rich and happy and before long finds himself poor, sickly, but ever faithful. For a moment he gets fed up with God and the whole system, but is finally coerced into selling his soul back to Heaven...
What is most important in performing McLeish is the skill with which his verse is read. Nightingale has avoided the obvious pitfall of over-emphasizing what there is of rhyme and meter. And if he nonetheless falls into a couple of others, they are decidedly secondary...
...This sort of fear action," according to Richardson, "is ample proof that a censure of McCarthy is necessary." Commenting on the movement, Archibald McLeish, acting Master of Eliot House, said last night, "Any man who has done as much as McCarthy has to weaken the democratic institutions of this country--and I mean both the Presidency and the Senate--certainly deserves censure from every citizen...
...Some gentlemen may be tempted to exceed the mark in their repentance of their sins of silence. Among these the name of Archibald McLeish leads all the rest. . . . This custodian of the nation's culture inferred last spring that the Word was more important than the truth, when he scored the post war writers for the effect of their work, although he could not deny the validity of the picture they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular...
Under the direction of Arnold Kenseth, assistant in English and Crator of the Poetry Room, the Library has bought all available records of poetry. Plans are under way to make available an extensive collection of McLeish records. In addition, recordings may be made of Robert Frost, and Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...