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...juries deadlocked. Indeed, exactly 30 years ago to the day -- Jan. 27 -- Beckwith's first trial had begun. Back then Mrs. Evers sat in this same Hinds County courtroom and saw former Governor Ross Barnett embrace Beckwith in full view of the jury. She watched while Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and expert marksman, winked, smiled and clowned through both trials. But today "Delay", as his friends call him, now 73, sat stonefaced. In his lapel he wore a Confederate-flag pin. He strained to hear Mrs. Evers as she recounted her husband's final moments...
...Death of Salesman...
When I first read Death of a Salesman in 10th grade, it was something very new and fresh for me. Having only read dramas such as Shakespeare's Hamlet and MacBeth, I thought plays were only about Large Male Figures. In contrast, Death of a Salesman tells the story of a Small Male Figure...
...story revolves around Willy Loman, an aging travelling salesman whose pipe dreams haven't come true. His dream was to live the lore of the salesman on the road, known and loved wherever he travelled. Instead, he has lived the reality of a mediocre selling career with constant indebtedness while trying to conceal it all from his family with fantastical salesman's pitches. Realizing the imminence of his own failure, Willy has tried to vicariously live his dream through his oldest son, Biff, The audience enters the story when Biff, in his thirties, has failed to live...
...another role for man in space: concierge. Who, after all, will service our huge earth-serving space infrastructure, the satellites that bring us Beavis and Butt-head, that allow weathermen to guess wildly a full seven days into the future, that can rattle the pocket pagers of every Rogaine salesman in the country? Who will service these vital underpinnings of Western civilization? Man, says NASA...