Posted on 09/13/2007 1:13:08 PM PDT by bs9021
PC Dead White Guy
by: Malcolm A. Kline, September 04, 2007
Believe it or not, there is at least one deceased Caucasian man of letters still revered in academia—playwright Arthur Miller, whose dramas attacked both capitalism and the American way of life even while he personally benefited from both.
Thus, it is with a heavy heart that media figures report on the son with Downs Syndrome whom their sensitive hero institutionalized but never publicly acknowledged. “What makes the revelation of Daniel so upsetting is how it juxtaposes Miller’s private decision with his public image, as one of the greatest American playwrights and the man who refused to name names before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and eloquently and loudly opposed the Vietnam War,” Jason Zinoman wrote in The New York Times on August 30. “For many of those who came of age in the middle of the last century a saintly glow hovers around Miller, whose plays have often examined questions of guilt and morality through the prism of family.”
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Let’s not forget his marriage to Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t say he’s a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He’s not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.”
- Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act 1
Kind of ironic given how he treated his child isn’t it?
So he shilled for genocidal totalitarians and he abandoned his own flesh and blood for the crime of being imperfect. Seems like a perfectly consistent pattern of behavior from a thoroughly rotten, soulless and ridiculously overrated guy.
Sorry, but this lit major always, pretty much, saw Mr. Miller for what he truly was, a perverted commie. (I mean, good grief, he married Marilyn Monroe—then divorced her! Is that a pervert, or is that a pervert?)
If that's the case what Miller had wasn't talent so much as luck, and the ability to manipulate it.
Orsen Wells wrote, produced, acted, managed an acting company, etc.
There is no comparison.IMHO.
Pretty much par for the course for a certain kind of liberal.
Even before the modern era of moonbat liberalism, there was a popular saying: “Liberals love humanity; it’s people they can’t stand”.
Many liberals are total creeps in their personal lives.
The grimly self-absorbed Miller was 4-F in WWII, dumped his first wife to marry Marilyn Monroe, then drove her so crazy with his depressing behavior that she started taking the pills that she overdosed on a year after their divorce.
I don’t know if it’s ironic, but it highlights the often great differences between an artist’s public life and private life. As a playwrite, Miller did everything right. His plays, not just “Death of a Salesman” and “The Crucible,” but “All My Sons” and several others, worked well on stage and touched the hearts and minds of audiences that had not yet been politicized to anywhere near the degree that we are today. While Miller may have been a leftist, and a hypocrite, his plays worked to touch heart and conscience. Attacks on him now seem moot.
Of course, of course, a thousand pardons...I..I can't imagine what I was thinking of when I wrote that previous post. I hang my head in shame....
(A little cornball, I'll admit, but sincere.)
The Third Man was really good too.
... or “liberals love everyone in general, but no one in particular.”
Attacks on him now seem moot.
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People say that artists private lives and public lives are seperate and should be judged seperately. I am not so sure. I think you need to know the core that drives an artist to understand his work and his works purposes fully. I would not trust Arthur Miller’s ideas because they come from a dark core, in my opinion.
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