Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poorest family in New Jerusalem is headed by Silas Miller (a pseudonym). Miller is never too sure how many people live in his house, or even how many children he has. It doesn't matter; it's obviously too many. Usually there are about 23 people--half of them Miller's children, the rest an assortment of relatives, neighbors, and "little fellers we just couldn't turn away"--living in the one-room house...
There is one bed in the Miller's house; Miller and his weary wife sleep there. Three of their children fill the floor space of the single room. Everyone else sleeps outside. Sleeping outside--usually under the house--can occasionally be pleasant, especially during the hot summer nights. Then the only discomforts are the rats and insects. But during the winter it's hard to find enough clothing to keep the cold out. Each winter since 1963 someone in the family has died under the house on a cold night...
...PRICE. Among the many dusty relics of the past in a family attic, the two brothers who are Arthur Miller's characters find living memories and smoldering emotions...
...JOHN MILLER Huntington...
Encouraged by this (and more State Department money), Kumo this year invited Clurman to direct it in another O'Neill play. Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller have been successfully performed in Japan. But O'Neill especially, says Translator Koji Numazawa, "is haunting to us Japanese, with his tortuous groping for an answer to the overwhelming question of God's existence." Wiggy Look. Clurman expected formidable difficulties: his Japanese vocabulary consists of only ten words. But communication was a comparative cinch. First, he had to pry his cast loose from the stylized posturing of the kabuki...