Death of a Great American...

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I'm not the only one here, I hope, who's mourning the death of Arthur Miller.
He, much more than the any presidents of the last decades, stood for much of what's great about America, as well as of humankind,
and his two greatest works are very much up-to-date today:
the harsh and inhuman sides of the American Way exhibited by Death of a Salesman,
and even more pertinently in The Crucible, the proneness to national hysteria and its terrible consequences from the very foundations of New England through McCarthyism down to today's equivalent of the wars against ‘witches‘ and ‘commies‘ : the terrrorism scare.
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Gotta agree with you. Arthur Miller was a great American! One of the few to stand up very publically to Joe McCarthy during his "witch hunt."

Miller was an alum from my alma mater... The University of Michigan. I actually got to meet him once at one of his regular visits to campus to speak to students about the arts and their place in American culture.

A great loss.

AJ
 
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