BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL: A CONVERSATION WITH ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (TV)

Summary

One in this series of programs on people and issues in the political and cultural forefront. In this edition, host Bill Moyers interviews eighty-three-year-old poet and public servant Archibald MacLeish at his home in Conway, Mass. MacLeish says that on the Bicentennial Americans should be grateful for the opportunity of self-government. He continues with praise for his rural home, manual labor, and the joys of old age. He recalls his career as a law student, poet, librarian of Congress and three-time Pulitzer prize-winner; discusses his change from the law to poetry, his six-year stay in Paris and the fall of France in 1940. He then reads two poems and discusses his search for an understanding of God and the problems of feelings of powerlessness in the modern world.

Details

• NETWORK: PBS
• DATE: March 7, 1976 Sunday 8:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:59:22
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T78:0626
• GENRE: Talk/Interview
• SUBJECT HEADING: Talk/Interview; Poets; U S - Bicentennial Celebrations
• SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1972-1976, 1979-1981
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Charles Rose … Executive Producer
• Betsy McCarthy … Coordinating Producer
• Duke Struck … Director
• Bill Moyers … Host
• Archibald MacLeish … Guest