Word: willye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"We do have a national interest in Kosovo,"Grossman countered. "America stands for something.There are big multinational corporations in Russiaand other countries that the IMF bails out, and wegive [the IMF] a lot of money. But when it's avicious tyrant going willy-nilly on the people ofSerbia, why don...
Compare today's system to that of the fifties, in which employees might work for one company until they retired. Indeed, Willy Loman could not work for his company's competitors or a different industry. He had to sell item Y for company X or die trying. Thus, as we...
WILLY: The Supreme Court! And he didn't even mention it! CHARLEY: He don't have to--he's gonna do it.
Critics have carped about the play's sometimes pretentious language ("Nobody dast blame this man..."). But at its best Miller's dialogue was unmatched for its plainspoken eloquence and economy. Willy, the blusterer with big dreams for his sons, meets Bernard, the nerdy next-door neighbor, now grown up and...
The famous eulogy that closes the play is perhaps its cruelest joke. Despite Charley's attempt to ennoble him, Willy's downfall is unrelievedly bleak. (Hardly anyone even shows up at his funeral!) "My God, it's so sad," director Elia Kazan exclaimed to Miller after reading the play for...