Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world, for instance, the new bestseller is suddenly Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which JAMES F. COYNE comes encased in red plastic with a red-ribbon marker. At Berke ley, it is treated like an amulet by the Black Muslims; at Columbia, it is outselling everything since Henry Miller; and Bren-tano's at the Pentagon has already unloaded 1,000 copies at $1 each. A few of the buyers may be genuine sinologists, but for the vast majority it is the new camp classic...
Died. Arthur Lewis Miller, 74, longtime (1943-59) Republican Congressman from Nebraska, a practicing physician-turned-conservative legislator who devoted his career to fighting what he considered "socialist giveaways" such as foreign aid, public-power projects and all welfare programs; of heart disease; in Chevy Chase...
...Workshop's greatest strength are its mood pieces. In "Moonring" Ellen Miller has given us a weird and lovely moon-misted night to Leornard Bernstein's music. But she fails to do justice to Bernstein's lyrical passages. The music is brightest in the last half of the piece, but the ballet is almost painful, with too many dancers jumping up and down on too small a stage...
...spite of the fights, verbal outbursts, and cries of anguish that punctuate The Crucible, Arthur Miller's play remains essentially intelligent and serious, never exciting or theatrical. Written during the height of the McCarthy era, just after HUAC's infamous investigation of Hollywood, Miller's saga of kill-crazy colonial Salem was unmistakably allegorical, its theme chillingly contemporary...
...Arthur Miller's arguments notwithstanding, the crafts of the stage and the short story are entirely distinct: the difference between someone telling a quiet anecdote and someone engaging in a public debate. Only a few writers have managed both with equal felicity, among them Chekhov and Maugham. Such fiction practitioners as Saul Bellow, John O'Hara and Norman Mailer have had little success at playwriting. With the direction reversed, Miller and Williams at least make a better showing...