Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pete Kelley's hook broke a 15-15 tie with 9 minutes left, and Gary Borchard and Joe Deering's shooting combined to give the Crimson a 37-25 lead at halftime...
Tralling by four points, 33-34 at half time, the Crimson finally drew even with 15:25 left on a jump shot by Joe Deering. Portnoy's foul shot again gave Columbia the edge, and for the next five minutes, the lead see-sawed back and forth...
Miller's intention in All My Sons is to show that a man's public acts and responsibilities are inseparable from his private ones, that he is as responsible to all mankind as he is to his family. Joe Keller is the owner of a factory which sold defective airplane parts to the army in World War II, managing to kill some American flyers. Passing the responsibility off onto his innocent partner, he escapes a jail sentence and lives scot free but heavy hearted in his "American town." Both his sons fought in the War--the elder lost...
...Keller family, despite its typical appearance, is in a bad way, Joe is a murderer Chris, the son, is an idealistic capitalist-to-be: and Mrs. Keller is a neurotic (she has migraine headaches and insists her son is still alive). Chris wants to marry Ann Deever, his brother's former sweetheart and, by the way, the daughter of his father's partner. Chris discovers his father's guilt and is disillusioned; Joe discovers that his older son had committed suicide when he heard about his father's crime, and shoots himself...
...always easy to spot the moral of a Miller tale, because he always has a chorus ready to tell us what it is. For instance, Joe tells his mother, "Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that, you threw away your son because that's why he died." Actually, that's not why he died at all. He died because, as he said in a letter to his girl, "I can't face anybody." He died, like a violated Victorian heroine...