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...Interest in Tragedy Most assessments of Death of a Salesman, by playwright Arthur Miller [APPRECIATION, Feb. 21], called the drama a masterpiece. Yet when the play opened on Broadway 56 years ago and drew rave reviews, TIME's critic was rather less enthusiastic. The piece we published, however, gave insight into Miller's point of view...
...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 ... Now a solid front-ranker among young U.S. playwrights, Arthur Miller took last week's success with caution. WHEN A FRIEND SAID THAT HE HAD 'ARRIVED,' MILLER PROTESTED: 'YOU NEVER ARRIVE, REALLY. There's always the next one ... Anybody in this business who thinks he's an expert is kidding himself.' A lanky, relaxed man with a gaunt Lincolnesque face, Playwright Miller...
...Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. “DJ Spooky,” channeled lightning with a laptop before a sold-out crowd in Sanders Theatre Friday night. He edited Griffith’s silent epic—live—interspersing dance clips from choreographer Bill T. Jones, projecting the remixed footage onto a massive triptych backdrop, and all the while turning tables to produce a tuneful blues base...
...only audience member at Sanders who didn’t seem to appreciate Miller’s ingenuity was James Otis, Class of 1743, whose austere white marble bust stood just a few feet behind the artist. When Miller scrolled Wilson’s notorious quote across the Sanders stage, one could almost see the statuesque Otis shudder. After all, Otis was killed by a bolt from the heavens in 1783; the lightning metaphor might have struck too close to home for the august alum...
...only regret is that Miller refused to take any stance on the profound questions that his performance provoked. “I don’t want to be heavy-handed and say ‘this is good,’ ‘this is bad,’” Miller told an audience of a dozen or so students and community members in the basement of the Carpenter Center Saturday morning after the performance. “It’s a blur...