Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for a Technicality. A voice from the past heartily concurred. Said John T. Scopes, now 68, a retired geologist living in Shreveport, La.: "This is what I've been working for all along." Except for a legal technicality, Scopes might have achieved last week's victory more than four decades ago. Indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in the 1925 test case, he was convicted and fined a nominal $100 by a circuit court judge. Tennessee's Supreme Court later voided the circuit court fine, on the ground that the jury and not the judge should have...
...Roman Catholic schools from first grade through college. He and his wife Cathy, 31, are regular worshipers at their parish church; their three daughters attend its parochial school; one young son is still at home. Convinced that they cannot afford to have more children, Fred and Cathy for the past few years have practiced birth control. Otherwise, they are loyal Catholics-and typical in their disaffection from what they feel are the church's outdated ways, in their hopes for further renewal...
Keeping the Momentum. Cliburn, now 34, has not always played so well in recent years. In Manhattan alone, three of his appearances in the past two seasons-especially a performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic in May-were considerably off his best form...
...past nine years, Robert Ryman, 38, a shy, quiet, Tennessee-born part-time art teacher, has lived in Manhattan lofts and tenements and painted "naked" pictures. That is to say, he covers rectangles of metal, canvas or paper with white paint and then, instead of framing them or stretching them, he mounts them as close to the wall as he can get them, sometimes stapling them directly to the plaster. The effect is unnerving. The wall seems to have developed a gaping hole...
Ryman's pictures are so unsettling, in fact, that some who see them for the first time laugh outright. He finally made his first commercial sale a month ago. Moreover, Ryman is no longer alone. For the past year or so, a dozen-odd other, younger artists have been producing pictures or sculptures that share his work's maddeningly artless look...