Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said to the jury: "Let your verdict be a strong one. Let it be the kill. Let it be the death blow to all these lies and defamations." The jury's verdict against the vicar, whose yearly salary is ?400: ?1,500 damages, and costs...
...Russian sphere, which "serve the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently won a Stalin Prize...
...Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes, of the self-deceptions bred of more than sleazy social values. At its very best, Death of a Salesman confers a bifocal sense of simultaneously making you see what is and what could be-how completely needless are man's blunders, and how entirely inevitable. There especially lies the impressiveness of the play's attempt, touched as it is with the tragic sense...
...Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Walter Fried) had Broadway in a fever of excitement from the moment it drew out-of-town raves last month. Last week, on Broadway itself, it caused even greater excitement, drew even wilder raves-"superb," "majestic," "great," "a play to make history...
Though such extravagant language was not justified, it was in some sense understandable. Death of a Salesman is no more than an altogether creditable play. But it is also a magnificent try, concerned with something so simple, central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success...