He never won the Nobel Prize?
If only he could have lived longer. If he had hung on until the 17 th Oct and made 90, I am sure they would have given it to him. Many many LOL
regards Jen
Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Not to make light of the normal rituals of a death, but maybe we can also
see this one as Arthur Miller's last piece, last performance. I just
suggested to my local bookstore (ironically called "The Phoenix"!) to place
"The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman" and other other works in the front
window. (There amongst N Choamsky, H. Zinn, etc.)
During the fifties' witch hunts it was probably more often than not
activist Jews who were called into the hearings and trials. Today it's Arabs
and Arab Americans. (That's if they even get out of confinement to be
formally accused.)
It's ironic that "The Crucible" as well as Orwell's "1984" are required
reading in California high schools. One would think that the alarms in those
books - as if they would now be part of our DNA - would automatically inform
and compel public outrage against this selective death of the constitution.
Contrarily, it seems, much of the public has an infinite capacity to absorb
Bush & Co's lies and contradictions - each one combined with the
repetitious incantations and calls for "Freedom." Real stomach turners.
I hope we can, at least, hope that this, Miller's, last performance, will
revive his work, as well as his transparent sense of public alarm.
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
> Ken -
>
> Truely, the death of Arthur Miller is a sad day.
>
> I certainly agree with your assessment of him. I have always
> believed he was a great writer who understood America only too
> well. Since I grew up with the values he presented in "Salesman"
> I know just how important that drama was defining the American
> "problem". I wonder if that problem is more universally espoused
> in the world today.
>
> I would think of Japan, for instance.
>
> Why did he never win the Nobel Prize?
>
> Tom
>
>
>> One should not be surprised when an 89-year-old man dies, but Miller's
>> death caught me short and leaves me with deep grief. Not a relative, just
>> "another writer," one whose imperfections are probably all too
>> glaring. But one who had something that seems to have vanished from the
>> landscape: a moral and social conscience and the courage to exercise them
>> on paper. If Death of a Salesman was not the grandiosely-described tragedy
>> of everyman, it came closer than anything else I know to expressing "an
>> American tragedy" born of a twisted ethos of life in the States that
>> prevails to this day. And as for The Crucible...I wish it were still not
>> as relevant as it was in 1953, but that says more about us than about
>> Miller himself.
>>
>> He was a deeply gifted man and I shall miss him deeply.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
>>
>> "This is the best of all possible worlds only because it is the only one
>> that showed up."-- Russell Edson
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