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...school-the brightest in their class, the editors of the law review. Geographical preference and a loyalty to certain schools are the only patterns of prejudice that are known to attract the Justices, but in all its history the court has picked only one woman clerk, Lucille Loman, who served Justice Douglas in 1944, and one Negro clerk, William T. Coleman, who served Justice Frankfurter...
Jacqueline Brooks, Bernard Kessel and Edward Higgins cleverly explored the depths of thestock-types they presented. Dean Gitter was good when he wasn't reverting to Willy Loman. And Hillier should be praised for the atmosphere of smooth informality in which he knit the scenes together. It was not until Crawling Arnold, however, that he seemed confident with his material, and didn't feel impelled to superimpose dramatic trickery...
Racial self-consciousness is a step backwards in American theater. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1948) took an obviously Jewish figure in Willy Loman (dialect, family relations, and the rivalry with the neighbors' son suggest a Jewish background), but expanded the character, rather than caricaturing him, concentrating on the universal qualities rather than the special heritage of the hero. To succeed in 1961 (without really trying), Miller's play would have to end with Biff and Happy going off to work on a Kibbutz...
...Attention must be paid to such a person," says Mrs. Willy Loman of her husband in Death of a Salesman. It is a poignant plaint, and she repeats it as if she did not quite believe it. The fact is, no one is really convinced that the tormented figures of modern drama have the stature of tragic heroes. The measure of that disbelief is to imagine Jocasta asking an audience to pay attention to Oedipus, or Cordelia to Lear. Try not paying attention to them...
...much more imagination, humor, photographic skill and musical talent than the programs they were designed to interrupt. The cinematography in a Prell shampoo blurb was visual poetry as it showed, with crystalline acuity, each gob of goo sinking into each coil of hair. There was the pathos of Willy Loman in a Metrecal pitch called the Lonely Man (commercials have titles these days), which showed a forlorn, overweight figure trudging through Central Park on a cheerless winter day while a narrator spoke of blubber in tones of quiet reasonableness...