Abstract
In “Situation Normal,” Arthur Miller’s remarkable 1944 account of his tour of Army training facilities, the playwright found himself frequently discouraged by the lack of open, direct talk about What the War Was For. After a few disenchanting days looking for what he called “the Belief,” Miller wrote, “I hope it is clear that we do have men in our Army to whom ideas are quite as important as beer.” Back on the home front, the radical artist Ben Shahn drew up a poster parodying big business’s overwhelming influence on the war effort: it featured the Statue of Liberty offering the world a Coke and read “The War that Refreshes: The Four Delicious Freedoms!”
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