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...Crucible (by Arthur Miller) shows more fieriness of purpose than of vision. The author of Death of a Salesman has turned back to 1692 and the Salem witchcraft trials, clearly gripped by their hideous drama, clearly haunted by a conviction of their relevance today. He has watched, across the centuries, the hallucinations of children and the hearsay of grownups swell to an epidemic of accusations and arrests, confessions and hangings. In that unhappy time, any human doubt or protest was called the work of the devil, and the one way to avoid punishment lay in confession of guilt...
...more ambitious levels, The Crucible falls short, for one thing because it is much more interested in manifestations than motives, more preoccupied with the how of Salem than the why. It is what the story stresses, more than the story itself, that reveals its bifocal nature, its linking of "witch-hunting" past & present, its absorption with parallels-despite the axiom that parallel lines never meet. Moral indignation rather than insight has combed over the facts; and in the end The Crucible not only omits something from its picture of Salem, but takes the life out of its inhabitants. The psychological...
...Faraway Farm near Winston-Salem, N.C., M. W. Larry Domino 5, an uncle of Champion Larry Domino 12th. was also in the news. Owner Donald A. (for nothing) Leach, a former adman now in the breeding business, had bought him in 1951 for "more than $10,000 and less than $25,000," and trucked him from Texas to North Carolina. But Larry began showing signs of listlessness and lameness in one leg. Leach's veterinarian, Dr. James T. Dixon, diagnosed Larry's ills as rheumatoid arthritis. While Larry lost weight-and his interest in heifers-Leach persuaded...
...Right of Correction Treaty." If the U.S. Government ratified the treaty, for example, it would be required to distribute to the press "corrections" from any other government that feels it has been misrepresented by U.S. papers. U.S. Delegate Charles Sprague, ex-governor of Oregon and publisher of the Salem (Ore.) Statesman, called the treaty a "hazardous step" because it would force a government to distribute to its press any propaganda other countries wanted to foist upon it. The Russians and their satellites also voted against the treaty on completely different grounds: they are still pushing for a treaty that will...
Public Career: Elected mayor of Salem in 1932. Elected state senator from Marion County, 1934. In 1947, when Oregon's Governor Earl Snell was killed in a plane crash, McKay announced in a characteristic way that he would run for the unexpired term: "I'm not mad at anybody. If the people want me, O.K. If they don't, O.K. I'm a rugged individualist exercising my American rights." He won. Re-elected in 1950 by 162,410 votes, he is now considered the strongest political figure in Oregon. As governor, he won a reputation...