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...FAVORITE JOHN GRISHAM NOVEL: no comment; recently read a life of Clarence Darrow...
Harper is being promoted big time by his label,and for once, a big-name record company seemsintent on pushing someone with real talent andsomething to say. The dripping slide that opensthe album's second track, "Whipping Boy," an oldChris Darrow tune and one of two tunes that Harperdid not pen himself (the other being theinfectious "I'll Rise," to which poet Maya Angeloucontributed the Iyrics) sets the intensity at ahigh level that is maintained throughout thealbum. As Harper wails: "Well you can needme....But don't you lead me/I won't followyou/Liston here/ I don't fear...
Kennedy isn't saying he's a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--two completely different people inside one, He's more like legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, who won praise Iron athe ists for his defense of Darwinism in the Scopes trial, all the while remaining personally devout...
...there were leaders of academia in this country who opposed allowing the infiltration of Darwin's ideas into American education, out of a misplaced fear that the theory of natural selection undermined belief in a Creator. And until the dramatic court-room duel between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, evolution was still contestable subject matter for the classroom...
...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...