Echoes down the Corridor : Collected Essays, 1944-2000

by Miller, Arthur (Author); Centola, Steven R. (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780142000052
• ISBN10: 0142000051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

For some fifty years now, Arthur Miller has been not only America's premier playwright, but also one of our foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. Echoes Down the Corridor gathers together a dazzling array of more than forty previously uncollected essays and works of reportage. Here is Arthur Miller, the brilliant social and political commentator-but here, too, Miller the private man behind the internationally renowned public figure. Witty and wise, rich in artistry and insight, Echoes Down the Corridor reaffirms Arthur Miller's standing as one of the greatest writers of our time.

Author Biography

Steven R. Centola, is Professor of English at Millersville University

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
A Note on the Selection	xiii
Steven R. Centola
A Boy Grew in Brooklyn	1	(13)
University of Michigan	14	(17)
Belief in America (from Situation Normal)	31	(7)
A Modest Proposal for the Pacification of the Public Temper	38	(9)
Concerning the Boom	47	(5)
The Bored and the Violent	52	(10)
The Nazi Trials and the German Heart	62	(7)
Guilt and Incident at Vichy	69	(7)
The Battle of Chicago: From the Delegates' Side	76	(11)
Kidnapped?	87	(14)
The Opera House in Tashkent (from in Russia)	101	(3)
Making Crowds	104	(22)
Miracles	126	(13)
What's Wrong with This Picture?	139	(6)
The Limited Hang-Out: The Dialogues of Richard Nixon as a Drama of the Antihero	145	(10)
Rain in a Strange City	155	(2)
On True Identity	157	(4)
A Genuine Countryman (from In the Country)	161	(9)
The Sin of Power	170	(5)
The Pure in Heart Need No Lawyers (from Chinese Encounters)	175	(6)
After the Spring	181	(4)
Suspended in Time	185	(5)
The Night Ed Murrow Struck Back	190	(10)
Excerpt from Salesman in Beijing	200	(3)
Tennessee Williams' Legacy: An Eloquence and Amplitude of Feeling	203	(2)
The Face in the Mirror: Anti-Semitism Then and Now	205	(4)
Thoughts on a Burned House	209	(4)
Dinner with the Ambassador	213	(7)
Ibsen's Warning	220	(2)
Uneasy About the Germans: After the Wall	222	(8)
The Measure of the Man	230	(7)
Get it Right: Privatize Executions	237	(3)
Lost Horizon	240	(2)
The Good Old American Apple Pie	242	(7)
The Parable of the Stripper	249	(3)
Let's Privatize Congress	252	(3)
On Mark Twain's Chapters from My Autobiography	255	(12)
Clinton in Salem	267	(3)
Salesman at Fifty	270	(4)
The Crucible in History	274	(22)
The Price-The Power of the Past	296	(4)
Notes on Realism	300	(13)
Subsidized Theatre	313