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Even some of Clark's supporters are wondering how well he will do in the un customary role of public salesman for the policies of his department rather than backstage adviser to higher officials. He has never been the top boss in a government job and a public advocate as well. His public speaking style is about as stiff and uninspiring as his court prose...
...former employees of U.S. Oil and Gas provided a fascinating, behind-the-scenes glimpse of what law enforcement officials call a "boiler room" operation. Such telephone-sales scams are springing up in South Florida faster than authorities can shut them down. Testified James Bennett, a U.S. Oil and Gas salesman who quit because his conscience bothered him: "These were crass people. They'd sell their own mother. And if their mother was already sold, they'd go out and buy another mother and sell her at a profit...
...next venture. Following that judge's advice, Kenney plans to spend next semester studying at the University of Moscow and writing his next work a comedy about the decision of 10th Century rulers of Kiev as to which religion to adopt. "I picture a bunch of religious salesman sitting around in a waiting room," a scene which he denies is Hasty Pudding material...
Death of a Salesman is no more than an altogether creditable play. But it is also a magnificent try, concerned with something so simple, central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success...
...Willy Loman, who all his life has been a salesman-and never a very successful one-is faced with what he cannot face: defeat. He has learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself-and then lost himself-inside the American dream. His nerve going, his job gone, his boys slashing their way out of his dream, the truth clawing down one after another of his defenses, Willy Loman has no prop left except a loyal and loving wife. It is not enough. He can only...