Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet, playwright, teacher, and public official and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Ill. on May 7, 1892. He graduated from Yale University in 1915. After serving in World War...
"Ars Poetica" and Archibald MacLeish are inextricably bound for most readers of modern American poetry, but neither this poem nor "The End of the World" (both first collected in Streets in the Moon, 1928) nor MacLeish's other heavily anthologized poems,...
"Ars Poetica" and Archibald MacLeish are inextricably bound for most readers of modern American poetry, but neither this poem nor "The End of the World" (both first collected in Streets in the Moon, (1928) nor MacLeish's other heavily anthologized poems,...
J.B. is a 1958 play by Archibald MacLeish. The play is set in a modern circus. Two vendors, Mr. Zuss and Nickles, begin the play-within-a-play by assuming the roles of God and Satan, respectively. They watch J.B., a wealthy banker, describe his...
A millionaire businessman accused of funneling money to Gov. Jim Doyle's campaign to secure approval for a planned casino agreed to plead guilty to lesser federal charges on Friday.Under the agreement, charges of fraud and lying to the FBI that carried up to 25 years...
J.B. Handelsman, who applied his dry wit to subjects ranging from politics to popular culture while creating nearly 1,000 New Yorker magazine cartoons, has died of lung cancer.Handelsman, 85, died June 20 at his home in Southampton, N.Y., The New Yorker said Tuesday.Besides his 950...
On a day players from Nebraska's greatest era returned to Memorial Stadium to be honored, the Cornhuskers suffered their worst home loss in almost 50 years.With Tom Osborne and the rest of the undefeated 1997 team that won a share of the national championship watching,...
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