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Remembering Arthur Miller,; American playwright and moralist
Topic Started: Feb 20 2005, 11:46 AM (219 Views)
Colo_Crawdad
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I posted this material about Arthur Millers' death on another forum and it appears to be receiving very little discussion. Maybe it is just not of interest, but I will repost it here. His passing is definitely a loss to America. The following two letters to the editor in the Denver Post expresses many of my sentiments .

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Re: "Moralist of U.S. stage elevated the ordinary," Feb. 13 news story.

Denver Post theater critic John Moore's words describing Arthur Miller as a moralist are superb: "Miller ... will be remembered as the moralist of the past American century, despite the fact that his sense of moralism often stood in direct opposition to widely accepted American social mores."

Would that Miller were here to write in the 21st century words that counter the "political moralism" of our time that has been able to place a narrow moral agenda before the public through ballot initiatives. If our moral values are to be determined by majority votes of the electorate, God help us!

Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell, Denver


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Arthur Miller, the eminent American playwright who died on Feb. 10, was one of a few public figures who refused to be intimidated by the inquisitors of the McCarthy era. In his autobiography, "Timebends," he recalls that time half a century ago: "Everywhere teachers were being fired for their associations or ideas, real or alleged, as were scientists, diplomats, postmen, actors, directors, writers - as though the 'real' America was rising up against all that was not simple to understand, all that was or seemed foreign, all that implied something slightly less reassuring than that America stood innocent and pure in a vile and sinister world beyond the borders."

Robert Spellman, Boulder
"WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US." --- Pogo
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Fr. Mike
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He received the most acclaim when he first started writing plays.

I thought he made an enlightened account of his marriage to marylyn Monroe. He called her a misunderstood genius. He said that he spent their marriage trying to save her from herself.

I don't know much about the claims of him being a moralist.

Fr. Mike

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PRT
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Moralist, certainly. I think Miller probably pointed out the lack of family values, a comfortable phrase these days, long before we knew we were losing them.
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Two of the best things ever to happen to Arthur Miller. Marilyn Monroe and Death of A Salesman.



Arthur Miller didn't think too much of today's theater.

In accepting his lifetime achievement award at the 1999 Tony awards ceremony, Miller lamented that Broadway had become too narrow.

“I hope that a new dimension and fresh resolve will inspire the powers that be to welcome fiercely ambitious playwrights. And that the time will come again when they will find a welcome for their big, world-challenging plays, somewhere west of London and somewhere east of the Hudson River.”

Let's see---wouldn't that be in the deep blue sea?
Something instead of Nothing?

"I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle.
God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing."
Alan Sandage

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brewster
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Hmm, sounds like Newfoundland...
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I'm surprised I haven't heard about it, a couple of his plays are well known here as well.
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