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...press closer to high tragedy and away from pathos, towards "the man who knows something" and away from the Willy Loman, is the aim of playwright Arthur Miller who delivered the Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture here yesterday...
Later in a CRIMSON interview, Miller pointed out that the John Proctor, leading character in his new play, "The Crucible" is just such a man while Willy Loman, the lead in "Death of a Salesman...
Ever since Joseph Stalin abolished the Politburo last October, the mystery inside an enigma (as Churchill once called it) of the Kremlin has only deepened. Who really administers the country now, the 36-man Presidium or the loman Secretariat (kitchen cabinet)? On the theory that it is the smaller, tighter Secretariat, Western intelligence agents and analysts last week were keeping an eye on a newly powerful figure in it, Nikita Khrushchev...
...Month Club choice), it unwraps not a man but a mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy Loman, stained with the pathos oJ success. Whenever Sinclair Lewis, John Marquand or Arthur Miller fail him, Author Jonas falls back on George Gallup. Jeff Selleck's life is the stuff life insurance actuary tables are made...
Death of a Salesman--Frederic March overplays Willy Loman, but the rest of the cast is very good. Stanley Kramer's production at the Astor follows Arthur Miller's original dialogue pretty closely...