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They're either saintly, maternal figures (Kate Keller in All My Sons , Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman , Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible ) or destructive temptresses (Abigail Williams in The Crucible , Catherine in A View From the Bridge , Maggie in After the Fall ). The lack of interest in women's minds is another thing that dates Miller and makes even his more recent plays seem like period pieces.
The saintly Omar Ibn el Khattab, second successor to Muhammad and the Muslim conqueror of Jerusalem in a.d. 638, declined an invitation from the Christian Patriarch to pray at the Holy Sepulcher for fear his followers might then want to turn the site into a mosque.
"ZM" performed a saintly act in the eyes of anyone lucky enough to ever share space with man's noblest companion.
As one old pal of hers told me, "There is a kind of worldly-wise woman in there--this has been lost in all the saintly religious stuff.
Mandela received a unanimously fond farewell . Former apartheid supporters called him "a saintly man," and a conservative white paper declared that he will be "sorely missed."