Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several inherent advantages as an instrument of suicide, aside from its ready availability. Because it cannot be clearly labeled, autocide not only avoids the social stigma attached to suicide, but also, as Arthur Miller's Willy Loman realized, almost automatically guarantees double indemnity on most life-insurance policies. There is even an emotional release not found in most other forms of self-destruction...
...NEED YOU ANY MORE by Arthur Miller. 240 pages. Viking...
These two books clearly belong in the second category. In the U.S., writes Playwright Arthur Miller in his foreword, short stories are "ranked more or less as casual things at the lower end of the scale of magnitude, like bungalows in the architectural world." Then why bother? Miller supplies his own answer: The short story is a form in which a writer can be as concise as his subject requires him to be. For a playwright, he says, the short story offers "a vessel for those feelings which, unelaborated, are truer, and yet for one reason or another...
Bandy-Legged Touqh. Though written over a period of 15 years, Miller's tales have a certain unity, concerned as they are with that incessant search for identity common to so many American writers. The title story is a discursive account of a momentous day in the life of a precocious five-year-old. The Misfits is the cow-country ballad about obsessed horse hunters that later became a celebrated movie starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. One of the best stories, Fitter's Night, has a sibling relationship to Miller's 1955 Broadway play...
...bandy-legged tough guy, a graduate of "skyscraper construction, brewery repairing, and for eight months the City Department of Water Supply, until it was discovered that he had been sending a substitute on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays while he went to the track and made some money." In Miller's phrase, these stories may all be bungalows, but they have striking interiors and a fine view of the surrounding country...