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Talk by Mary McCarthy about the Muse and the Academy
A picture of American writing in its current uneasy relation with the university: the short-story seminar; the writers' conference; t'h-e critical exegesis; t'he coursesin, how to 'understand ' fiction and poetry; and tibe modernised, classroom as host to a new blight of conformity

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Talk By:
Mary McCarthy

by Archibald MacLeish
[Starring] Edana Romney and Robert Eddison

The scene is a garden above the sea on one of the islands of the Antilles.

Contributors

Writer:
Archibald MacLeish
Music specially composed by:
Antony Hopkins
Producer:
D.G. Bridson
Elizabeth Stone:
Edana Romney
Alice Liam:
Peggy Hassard
Oliver Oren:
Robert Eddison
Chuck Stone:
Harold Ayer
Ann Bolt:
Jill Balcon
Peter Bolt:
Alan Keith
Col Harry Keogh:
MacDonald Parke
Sally Keogh:
Mavis Villiers
J B Halsey:
Philip Vickers
Helen Halsey:
Mary Wimbush

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