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...rare and flighty bird. Most of us never catch a glimpse of it. Very occasionally it settles down helpfully in the corner, cawing advice to artists as they pile up those bodies of work on which their hopes of immortality rest. More usually--and this was the case with Arthur Miller--it touches down briefly, then darts away. The artist may catch tantalizing sight of the creature as he walks on through the woods, but it never again perches long on his shoulder...
...spring of 1947 that the 31-year-old Arthur Miller heard the sweetest--and most profound--birdsong of his life. After a decade of struggle he had finally achieved a hit Broadway play, All My Sons, and with its proceeds bought a farm in Roxbury, Conn. Leaving his family behind in Brooklyn, he repaired to the country, built himself a cabin-studio (he was a great carpenter), settled down at a crude desk he had also fashioned and began writing. He had a first line for a new play in mind, and some thoughts about its tragic theme...
Rabb Professor of Anthropology Arthur Kleinman takes the place of Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji, who is on leave for the rest of the semester...
...Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, nestled in Radcliffe Yard, reopened last Wednesday with approximately $7 million worth of completed renovations...
...this donation, the Women’s Archives was established. They expanded through the 1940’s and 1950’s to become the Schlesinger Library, which moved to its present location, between Brattle and Garden Streets, in 1967. The library is named after Harvard University Historian Arthur Schlesinger and his wife Elizabeth...