“I’ve got to get some seeds. I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.”
Posted on 02/11/2005 1:38:16 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
NEW YORK (AP) - Arthur Miller, whose dramas of fierce moral and personal responsibility such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" made him one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights, has died at the age of 89.
Miller, died Thursday night of congestive heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Conn., surrounded by his family, his assistant, Julia Bolus, said Friday.
For decades, the playwright, along with Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, dominated not only American stages, but theaters throughout the world. Broadway marquees were to dim their lights Friday night at curtain time.
"It is the loss of a giant," said Robert Falls, director of the 1999 Broadway revival of "Death of Salesman" that starred Brian Dennehy as the iconic title character Willy Loman. "He made tremendous art."
Playwright Edward Albee, recalling how Miller once paid him a compliment by saying that Albee's plays were "necessary," said, "I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays were 'essential.'"
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Not many of Marilyn Monroe's dance partners left.
Are they sure he isn't just bored after re-reading one of his novels?
Search is your friend.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341093/posts
Used to live down the street from this guy - I was younger then.....but he was always old.
“I’ve got to get some seeds. I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.”
And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!
The good thing about old commies is that they are OLD commies. First Ossie Davis and now this guy. I won't pretend to feel sad.
Ain't we smart and sophisticated.
I think you captured the essence there.....
"Bad puritans..." No Fifth Amendment in Colonial America.
Just reflecting on the events which inspired Miller to write "The Crucible" - the play's puritan witchhunt theme alluded to the now obsolete Congressional Committee on UnAmerican Activities' hearings in the '50s. If a man publicly denies what he privately believes, then he has the convictions of a coward.
Today, subversive ideologues have risen from the subrosa to the overt level. They are even elected to Congress on explicit socialistic platforms. Now, if one opposes a socialist one world government take-over of the Republic of America's sovereignty, the neoMarxist will call that one a xenophobe or worse - a conservative.
I have aged as gradually as our American founding precepts, values and ideals have turned upsidedown.
Willy to Biff: "Spite will be the word of your undoing!"
Lots of admirers calling Miller a "great American" on the other thread. Yuk.
Elia Kazan, patriot: An American unfairly scorned
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/992023/posts
Do you want to see how many Communist there still are in Hollywood?...Protesting Kazan's Award
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/975677/posts
Miller wrote plays.
Just curious...Which liberal writers do you think were great artists? Since most writers were/are leftists...
This is why I don't believe Miller to be a great American. He may be an artist...however, he used his art to promote anti-capitalist ideas which is the opposite of what America is about. I don't consider many of Hollywood actors great Americans either. Miller in particular used his art politically to promote anti-McCarthyism and bash the Church...2 birds with one stone. Reprehensible.
I have no trouble with reading these liberal authors' work to see how they use art to promote their philosophies. However, why are Milton, Dante, Augustine, Plato, etc. etc. etc. not presented in High Schools? The post WWI period literary trend is way way way over-emphasized IMO and has contributed greatly to the cynicism toward the West.
As they were great literary figures from whom countless English authors drew, I would think they would be worth some time in High school literature courses.
Chaucer, Chesterton, John Donne, Spenser, Pope, Johnson, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc...not taught. 20th century scepticism has been the trend for some time. Disgustingly unbalanced.
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