Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-disrespect, into a bluffer. But Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes, of the self-deceptions bred of more than sleazy social values. At its very best, Death of a Salesman confers a bifocal sense of simultaneously making you see what is and what could be-how completely needless are man's blunders, and how entirely inevitable. There especially lies the impressiveness of the play's attempt, touched...
When slender, white-haired Benjamin E. Youngdahl (brother of Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl) came to St. Louis in 1945 as dean of Washington University's School of Social Work, he swore that in five years he'd "win an end to the ban on Negroes ... or go elsewhere...
...last week Ben Youngdahl had beaten his deadline. Washington's undergraduate school is still closed to Negroes, but eight were enrolled for the spring semester at the School of Social Work, and one more slat had been kicked out of the cultural fence which separates St. Louis' whites from its Negroes...
What surprised oldtimers as much as the ambitious total was the content of the projected films. The studio which, before Schary, had rarely put into its pictures anything more controversial than Lassie and Ma Hardy's apple pies, was now courting social themes: Intruder in the Dust (about the Negro problem); Border Incident (about Mexican laborers who enter the U.S. illegally); an antitotalitarian story; a script about an American Indian (Robert Taylor) trying to adapt himself to modern society...
Take a well-bred young English lady named Armorel Cepinnier and bind her in matrimony to Gian ("Toughie") Ardree, an Italian-born bricklayer with quick fists and a slow brain, and you can have a nice stew of social and psychological problems. Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir...