[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 78 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 78

          Recognizing and honoring the life of Arthur Miller.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 9, 2005

    Mr. Hatch (for himself and Mr. Kennedy) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
          Recognizing and honoring the life of Arthur Miller.

Whereas the late Arthur Miller wrote some of the most revered works in the 
        American dramatic canon including All My Sons, After the Fall, The 
        Crucible, The Price, The American Clock, A View from the Bridge, The 
        Ride Down Mt. Morgan, and Death of A Salesman;
Whereas Arthur Miller received the highest honors for artistic accomplishment 
        and distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities in this 
        country, the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Endowment for the 
        Humanities' Jefferson Lectureship;
Whereas Arthur Miller received every major award given to playwrights in the 
        United States, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the Drama 
        Desk, and the Drama Critics Circle;
Whereas Arthur Miller, through his service to the Dramatists Guild of America, 
        has fought for the freedom of American playwrights to have their works 
        performed as they intended and given all the protection the law can 
        afford them;
Whereas Arthur Miller, through his service to PEN, the association of Poets, 
        Essayists and Novelists, has fought for the freedom of imprisoned 
        writers all over the world;
Whereas Arthur Miller's plays are taught in virtually every high school and 
        college in the United States, and his new plays have been produced on 
        Broadway for more than half a century;
Whereas Arthur Miller wrote about the lives and longings of American working men 
        and women with a power and clarity unparalleled in modern literature;
Whereas Arthur Miller, in writing about ``little men'' as his heroes were called 
        in the beginning, proved that little men do indeed suffer tragic losses, 
        and that to defend or regain their dignity, they will lay down their 
        lives as nobly as any king ever did;
Whereas Arthur Miller wrote about our indestructible will to achieve our 
        humanity, about our fear of being torn away from what and who we are in 
        this world, and about our fear of being displaced and forgotten;
Whereas Arthur Miller has maintained his vision and claimed his victory as the 
        preeminent man of letters in the American theater; and
Whereas Arthur Miller enjoyed a long and luminous career before he died at the 
        age of 89 on February 10, 2005, Now, therefore, be it:
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) recognizes the extraordinary contributions of the late 
        Arthur Miller for his service to the Nation in the theater, in 
        literature, and in his advocacy of the freedom to speak and 
        write with conviction and courage;
            (2) honors him as a great American literary pioneer; and
            (3) expresses its deepest condolences upon his death to his 
        family members and his friends.
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