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...early 1920s, several states simply forbade the teaching of evolution outright, opening an epoch that inspired the infamous 1925 Scopes trial (leading to the conviction of a Tennessee high school teacher) and that ended only in 1968, when the Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. In a second round in the late 1970s, Arkansas and Louisiana required that if evolution be taught, equal time must be given to Genesis literalism, masquerading as oxymoronic "creation science." The Supreme Court likewise rejected those laws...
...Civil War. He describes seeing dead soldiers' bodies on the ground, futilely lamenting that he never expected to see a sight so gruesome. The play's main focus is on the personal misfortunes of the House of Oedipus. Ultimately, though, it reaches out to a larger historical epoch and brilliantly describes the horror of all wars. The arrival of the Advisor (Karin Alexander), interrupting the speech signals the beginning of the denouement of the play; it reproduces on a individual level the horrific, senseless violence that the general recalls in his soliloquy...
...seem to be on its last legs. Indeed, with few exceptions, it has no legs and seems unlikely to grow new ones. Photography took them away. But older portraits have hardly lost their magic and their grip on the imagination. This is why "Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch," which is on view (through April 25) at the National Gallery in London, and will be seen later this year at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is such an invigorating show...
...after a 40-year conflict that held the entire world in a state of terror about the possibility of nuclear annihilation, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union reconciled peacefully. And here's another: a commercial American television network has produced a 24-part series about this epoch that is serious, thorough and absorbing. CNN's Cold War, which debuts Sept. 27, serves as an example of documentary television at its best. Watching it, one begins to understand how the stamina of the U.S., the self-deception of the Soviet Union and the ultimate prudence of both helped the world...
...decision by the factions in the North promises to bring an end to the most recent epoch of killing, which began 30 years ago and has taken the lives of 3,249 people, including 16 killed in the past few weeks as the talks inched toward success. Ten times that number have been wounded since 1968 when the Roman Catholic minority rose up against British rule and the discrimination of the ruling Protestant majority. The pain of loss of a family member is perhaps the most powerful shared memory of Protestants and Catholics in Ulster...