Word: salesman
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...residents became as diverse as the bounty of their vegetable patches. A bond salesman who had never gardened before started raising onions, broccoli, cauliflower, parsley, snow peas, chard and kale. Near him is a physics professor who once specialized in nuclear energy and now prefers the solar kind. There are schoolteachers and state-government employees (Sacramento is 15 miles away), young couples and retirees. Although the houses grew as large as 3,000 sq. ft., Corbett built several 1,000-sq.-ft. units for low-income residents...
Miller was a social realist, yet it's easy to forget that Death of a Salesman was also an experimental work, with its fluid leaps in time as Willy drifts into memories of his sons as teenagers and of his idolized brother Ben. Director Robert Falls' expressionistic new version--the traditional house set replaced by props and rooms that rotate around Willy on a turntable--puts the focus on Willy's interior life. While not quite the revisionist breakthrough some have hailed it (a 1996 production at London's National Theatre, the stage dominated by a broken tree, departed similarly...
Death of A Salesman got plenty of attention right from the start. When it opened on Broadway in February 1949, the advance buzz was intense, the critics mostly raved (though TIME's Louis Kronenberger complained about its "inadequate artistry" and "sometimes stolid prose"), and the play went on to win both a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. It catapulted Arthur Miller to the top rank of American playwrights and has made perhaps a firmer dent in our consciousness than any other drama written for the American stage. So when the play celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with...
CHARLEY: A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory...
...reading between the lines of his story, in the hope of bringing to light an even bigger story, but there's no glory to be found at the core of Michael Majeski's story, just a broken life. Valparaiso is, at its heart, a Death of a Salesman for a radically changed world. While the world has changed, people have not: the existential questions that Willy Loman could not solve remain unanswered...