The Last Yankee by Arthur Miller

Tragedy and the Common Man by Arthur Miller

In this age few tragedies are written. It has often been held that the lack is due to a paucity of heroes among us, or else that modern man has had the blood drawn out of his organs of belief by the skepticism of science, and the heroic attack on life cannot feed on an attitude of reserve and circumspection. For one reason or another, we are often held to be below tragedy-or tragedy above us. T...

Sam Harvey Yankee Surgeon—Philosopher

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Result is Best Possible ” by Arthur

Generalizing some earlier techniques due to the second author, we show that Menas’ theorem which states that the least cardinal κ which is a measurable limit of supercompact or strongly compact cardinals is strongly compact but not 2 supercompact is best possible. Using these same techniques, we also extend and give a new proof of a theorem of Woodin and extend and give a new proof of an unpubl...

Studies in Bacterial Metabolism. Vii. by Arthur

A most fundamental principle of bacterial metabolism may be expressed concisely by stating that “Fermentation takes precedence over putrefaction;“’ that is to say, bacteria in general which can utilize both carbohydrate and protein, act upon the former in preference to the latter when bot,h are present in the same medium. In view of the confusion attending the use of the terms putrefaction and ...