Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Archibald MacLeish. ” The main Republican arguments against MacLeish’s nomination from within Congress was: that he was a poet and was a “fellow traveler” or sympathetic to communist causes. In this case Huntington wanted the poet Joseph Auslander to be named to the position.

He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry.