2005-02-15
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"...conscience was no longer a private matter but one of state administration"
Arthur Miller 1915-2005 |
I remember reading The Crucible in high school, and it shaped my thinking more than the works of other writers I'd been exposed to | How timely that story remains today, with a frenzied powerful few whipping up fear in the community to accomplish some dark objective ~ namely, to murder a handful of scapegoats while hiding their own shortcomings | How little things have changed, or so it seems | Miller was one of a handful of authors and artists who refused to bow to the extremist behaviors later recognized as MacCarthyism | And though he is now gone, his presence remains ~ ever watchful and alert |
"...conscience was no longer a private matter but one of state administration"
Arthur Miller 1915-2005 | I remember reading The Crucible in high school, and it shaped my thinking more than the works of other writers I'd been exposed to | How timely that story remains today, with a frenzied powerful few whipping up fear in the community to accomplish some dark objective ~ namely, to murder a handful of scapegoats while hiding their own shortcomings | How little things have changed, or so it seems | Miller was one of a handful of authors and artists who refused to bow to the extremist behaviors later recognized as MacCarthyism | And though he is now gone, his presence remains ~ ever watchful and alert |
MORE SITES ABOUT ARTHUR MILLER AND HIS WORK: The Arthur Miller Society | Books + Writers' Miller Bio | PBS on Arthur Miller |
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