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...restated a few pages later as "Selling is puking. Your customer wants to buy.") Despite the occasional coarseness (he proudly claims to have "edited out one thing, all the bull____"), Gitomer's books have a certain blustery earnestness. They are the kind of books that Willy Loman would have proudly stuffed in his coat pocket...
...depending on where you lived. People next to the park who got a breeze in summer were considered wealthy. All of our rooms faced walls or the backs of houses." Simon's father Irving, like the father in the trilogy, worked in the garment industry. Recalls Simon: "Like Willy Loman, he learned to ingratiate himself with his customers. He wasn't a particularly bright man and had only a grade-school education. I remember him as being a great laugher, a great audience...
...Daniel W. Chetel ’06. Mozart’s Symphony no. 40 in G minor—one of his last and most recognizable works—will feature prominently in the performance. Mozart’s upcoming anniversary has made him seem a bit like Willy Loman: apparently, homage must be paid. But while countless orchestras across the nation—and across campus—have been obligatorily trotting out his works, BachSoc will further embellish its celebration of Mozart’s legacy by performing a piece by Heitor Villa-Lobos. The Brazilian composer?...
What gives The Comeback its, well, reality is Kudrow's layered performance; she gives sympathy and poignance to what could have been a one-joke dimwit. Valerie is the Willy Loman of sitcoms, trying to will herself into the second half of her career on a blow-dry and a nervous smile. When it gets past its preaching about reality TV and show biz, The Comeback hits a universal theme: Valerie is being forced, despite her struggle, to recognize the truth about herself. During a spat, she tells her sitcom's producer how much better she was treated...
...credit, Friedman moves on to discuss briefly the depersonalization that a frictionless, expansive, highly technical–i.e., “flat”–world may impose. He risks triviality, however, by steeping the discussion in Americana, evoking Willy Loman and citing a real-life struggling Minnesota wholesaler. Friedman’s pal the wholesaler may have a legitimate complaint that he can no longer “stop by the office, give the buyers a few Vikings’ tickets,” and maintain a friendly rapport with his customers. But the wholesaler?...