Insightful Op-Ed piece regarding A. Miller and our Society

[Burma Jones]

Bob Herbert - NYT, February 14, 2005

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Mr. Miller's death last week meant more than the loss of an outstanding playwright. It was the loss of a great public thinker who believed strongly, as Archibald MacLeish had written, that the essence of America - its greatness - was in its promises. Mr. Miller knew what ignorance and fear and the madness of crowds, especially when exploited by sinister leadership, could do to those promises.

His greatest concerns, as Charles Isherwood wrote in Saturday's Times, "were with the moral corruption brought on by bending one's ideals to society's dictates, buying into the values of a group when they conflict with the voice of personal conscience."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/14/opinion/14herbert.html?hp

[Briar]

1. Nice to see Miller honoured in his own country

which mostly seems indifferent to him. Not patriotic enough, perhaps.