... he studied the way people did sit and accommodated those facts to his designs (Kirkham, 188). Soon production was taken over by Herman Miller Inc., who continues to produce furniture in the United States to this day. Herman Miller furniture had cut production during World War II, and devoted their facilities to war related products (Kirkham, 126). Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen ... worked on their molded plywood designs throughout the war until they were introduced to Herman Miller (Kirkham, 214). The plywood furniture became the first of a long series of Eames furniture design (Kirkha...

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... over nothing, thousands of artists were getting laid off for no good reason, and a national communist scare had the nation at a standstill. In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard ... back up any of his claims, and then his following had died like the hysteria that he had brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. Arthur Miller had rewritten the Witch-hunt that had occurred ther...

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... to confront it. Described by religious imagery ("The Monuments" ch.2 pg12, "Sacred Kingfisher" ch.4 pg29) Jim's home is an Eden. He leaves an idyllic life and a purposeful job that he adores in his wake. Paul likewise casts aside his future as a promising writer, another Goethe or Schiller according to Professor Kantorek, his mother observing "Oh Paul. You're a soldier now, aren ... ...

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... fear to strike. See to it, m"Lord, that thou fearest them as much as they shall now fear thee, that none may unleash this dread thing which we have wrought" (Miller 62). Unfortunately, the leaders were blinded by greed and thirst for power, and unleashed the weapons in an effort to annihilate the other leaders, and thereby gain sole control over ... the gate of technology for the next era of civilization, as it is one of the first inventions which is similar to those found in the Pre-Flame Deluge era. Miller foreshadows the reality that people who create technology are never open-minded...

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... a result of the Cold War, and Americans fear of communism. The American Communism scare of the 1950s also affected Broadway. Arthur Miller, author of the play Death of a Salesman, recalls the scrutiny he underwent as a result of his play's storyline. Miller recalls that "Death of a Salesman questioned the ethos of the business civilization, which the play intimates has no real respect for ... ...

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... the Prime Minister. The AWS and the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) held the majority of the seats in the Sejm. Marian Krzaklewski was the leader of the AWS, and Leszek Miller led the SLD. In June 2000, UW withdrew from the governing collation, leaving AWS at the helm of a minority government. Poland's September 2001 parliamentary elections saw the center-left Democratic ... Left Alliance (SLD--successor to the communist party twice removed), triumph and form a coalition with the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) and leftist Union of Labor (UP), with Leszek Miller (SLD) as Prime Minister. Toget...

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