Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman) spoke up for the simple life, in Cue magazine: "I can only work as an anonymous person among anonymous people . . . The kind of life one leads when one has the means for total leisure is a very destructive life. Leisure is a thing that normally takes place once a week in most people's lives, on Sunday . . . For the writer to forget the problems of work and leisure is to forget the basic patterns of people's lives...
...Awards (Broadway's "Oscars"), for "notable contributions to the current season," were handed out for the third year. The little silver medallions went to Rex Harrison (Anne of the Thousand Days) and Martita Hunt (The Madwoman of Chaittot) for dramatic acting; Arthur Miller for writing Death of a Salesman, and Ray Bolger (Where's Charley?) and Nanette Fabray (Love Life) for their musicomedy performances...
Rebel's End. Instead of going to college after high school, Frankie first had to go to work. He was a good salesman and in a year he made enough money selling children's swings, and later electric drills, to start himself out at the University of Washington. He had become a serious young man, a reader of H. L. Mencken's green-covered American Mercury-not a radical, merely an earnest explorer of panaceas for the common man. Then father's health began to fail...
...York Drama Critics Circle met last week and managed, with little dissent, to pick its favorites of the season. The best U.S. play: Death of a Salesman, a deeply human story of a typical American who so craves success that he is fatally crushed by failure (TIME, Feb. 21). The best foreign play: The Madwoman of Chaillot, an enchanting fantasy about a wacky countess who, Pied Piper-like, rids Paris of its human rats (TIME, Jan. 10). The best musical: South Pacific, a sort of child of Madame Butterfly by Mister Roberts, brilliantly produced with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
Robert was not an especially adventurous man; back in Buffalo he had been a hardworking, uninspired advertising salesman. As a soldier in Italy, he had weathered battle and he was deadly tired of the male odors and loud talk of the army barracks. More than anything else, he wanted to find a complaisant girl. For Lisa, the girl he found in Rome, it was a case of surrender or hunger. But Robert and Lisa soon found that love could never be simple, not even when it was sold by a desperate Italian girl to a lonely G.I. in a tawdry...