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...York City lawyers in 1920 to form the A.C.L.U., which he headed until 1950. Though Baldwin was labeled a leftist for his defense of radical labor unions during the 1920s and 1930s, the A.C.L.U. also came to the aid of Darwinian high school Teacher John T. Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" of 1925, won free-press rights for Jehovah's Witnesses in 1938 and defended neo-Nazis in recent years...
...other, roaring bear cages when Gallen screamed, Schrutt's out! I thought. But when I squinted through cage corners and down the dark paths toward the Small Mammal House, I saw a man-shaped figure, loping more or less on all fours, turn the corner by the Monkey Complex-followed by another just like him, though not as thick in the chest. The orangutan and the lowland gorilla, in cahoots...
...Roussels have a family tradition: none of their daughters ever contemplates marriage without first becoming pregnant. This does not seem to be a conscious decision, but just the way things work out. This monkey-see, monkey-do tendency renders the father wry and the mother weary. As for the young women, the eldest ends up comfortably settled, the second unhappy to the point of a mental breakdown, while the youngest, after losing her child, decides not to marry...
...very good statement from a socially responsible organization," he said. Bland and self-effacing, Wildmon, 43, took up his crusade when he could not find what he thought were good programs for his own family. "Everything on the air has a message," he explains. "TV represents behavior modification, or monkey-see, monkey-do. A child sees it and it leaves an impression. But consideration, decency, honesty, fidelity, hard work-those values aren't there. If I disagree with the values that are there, can't I stop supporting the companies that put them on? Sex and violence exist...
Flying wings and flying boats. A car chase and a barroom brawl. Abduction by submarine. Supernatural forces. A brainy professor who turns into a roguish soldier of fortune between semesters. A heroine who talks tough, loves hard and punches with either hand. A traitorous monkey-yes, a treacherous little bundle of chattering fur who constantly betrays the good guys until he is dispatched by a poisoned date, not a minute too soon...