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From: LindyBill2/13/2005 12:59:07 AM
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Looking back now, I don't think Arthur Miller wrote one thing I really liked. Of course, the left is having an orgasm over him. After all, he "refused to testify."

Attention Must Be Paid
By DAVID MAMET
NYT
Published: February 13, 2005

Los Angeles

DUSTIN HOFFMAN was playing Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman." I met Arthur Miller backstage after a performance. "Arthur," I said, "it's the oddest thing, but in the scene between Biff and Willy, it was as if I was listening to a play about my own relationship with my father."


I went on a bit, and looked over to see a small, distracted smile on his face. Of course, I thought. He's not only heard this comment thousands of times, he has probably heard it from every man who ever saw the play.

It is the great American Domestic Tragedy.

And "The Crucible" is the American Political Tragedy.

He wrote it to protest the horror of the McCarthy era.

nytimes.com
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