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...didn't, and as anti-communist "paranoia" swept the nation, Miller said he grew increasingly enraged by the rising hysteria...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miller Recounts McCarthy Era, Origins of "The Crucible" | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...Crucible," a dramatization of the 1692 Salem witch trials, was written as an allegory for the "witch-hunt" atmosphere that pervaded America when Joseph McCarthy, a Republican representative from Wisconsin, led the nation on a search for communists in the American government. Miller said the search "paralyzed the nation...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miller Recounts McCarthy Era, Origins of "The Crucible" | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...Miller, who also wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Death of a Salesman," called McCarthy and the anti-communist forces "silly...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miller Recounts McCarthy Era, Origins of "The Crucible" | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...experience with the so-called McCarthy era began, Miller said, when Columbia Pictures was preparing to release the film version of "Death of a Salesman." Because many executives considered the play anti-capitalist, Columbia asked Miller to sign an anti-communist declaration. He refused...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miller Recounts McCarthy Era, Origins of "The Crucible" | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed him to testify. But Miller said the subpoena was only because of his impending marriage to movie star Marilyn Monroe--and that House prosecutors were only seeking publicity in the waning years of the McCarthy...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miller Recounts McCarthy Era, Origins of "The Crucible" | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

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