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| Remembering Arthur Miller,; American playwright and moralist | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 20 2005, 11:46 AM (219 Views) | |
| Colo_Crawdad | Feb 20 2005, 11:46 AM Post #1 |
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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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| Fr. Mike | Feb 20 2005, 09:27 PM Post #2 |
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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 | Feb 20 2005, 09:59 PM Post #3 |
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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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| CalRed | Feb 20 2005, 11:46 PM Post #4 |
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An earlier photo 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? |
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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 | Feb 21 2005, 09:42 AM Post #5 |
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Hmm, sounds like Newfoundland... |
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| sebo | Feb 21 2005, 01:54 PM Post #6 |
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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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