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INHERIT THE WIND. What better way to celebrate the Bill of Rights' 200th anniversary than to revive this drama about the clash between freedom of speech and freedom of religion in Tennessee's 1925 "monkey trial" about evolution? Staged five times a weekend through Dec. 15 in an actual courtroom of Philadelphia City Hall, it features Malachy McCourt as William Jennings Bryan, and Jason Miller, Pulitzer-prizewinning author of That Championship Season, as his adversary, Clarence Darrow...
Will that anger endure, along with Republican control of the White House? Neither author provides a ballot of hope to Democrats yearning for reversal of fortune soon. But the party that celebrates its 200th anniversary next year has survived long exiles in the wilderness before. Partisans suffering terminal despair should recall that in 1964, speculation about the imminent demise of the G.O.P. came awfully cheap...
...will recognize his work. Since 1977 Dick has painted 14 covers for the magazine. Among the best known are his portrait of Deng Xiaoping, who was our Man of the Year in 1979, and his gatefold showing a cross section of Americans for our 1987 special issue on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. A native of Royal Oak, Mich., Dick attended the University of Michigan and, improbably, began his career working for a company that manufactured paint-by-number sets. After many years as a graphic designer and an art director for major advertising firms, he returned to illustration...
...which 97% of Poland's 38 million people belong, is omnipresent and, in the view of some, virtually omnipotent. Bishops and priests bless the armed forces, schools and factories. The newly created post of superior chaplain to the army has been given the rank of general. To mark the 200th anniversary of the country's first liberal constitution earlier this month, President Lech Walesa, a devout Catholic, skipped ceremonies at parliament and instead visited the national shrine of the Black Madonna at Jasna Gora...
...panel discussion, sponsored by the Institute of Politics, was organized in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the First Amendment...