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...legal and political terrain faced by Frost and her allies has changed considerably since the day Scopes went on trial, even in the pres-ent era of Reagan conservatism. For one thing, the state of Tennessee has switched sides. In 1925 the state prosecuted Scopes; today the Tennessee advocate general is backing the school board against Frost. For the most part, the local community has been unreceptive to the Fundamentalists' claims. No matter which way the monkey trial of the 1980s comes out, the case has already demonstrated that history never does quite repeat itself...
...then Sartre was famous as the leading exponent of the creed known as existentialism (Being and Nothingness, 1943) and the chief guru to the postwar denizens of St. Germain des Pres. De Beauvoir was not far behind. She won the prestigious Prix Goncourt for her fourth novel, The Mandarins, an astringent survey of the Paris literary life as well as a memoir of her own affair with ^ Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. More enduring fame came from her monumental manifesto The Second Sex (1949), one of the cornerstones of modern feminism...
...Pres. Assoc. of Black Radcliffe Women, Academy Homes, Big Brother Big Sister Program. Citistep Dance Theatre Program. H/R Dramatic Club Performances of "Working" and "Suicide...
...They overlap," he said, adding that he had yet to compose his remarks.Honorary Degree Recipients and dignitaries on the steps of Widener Library, Commencement Day, June 5, 1947. Front row, left to right: LAIRD BELL '94. Gov. ROBERT F. BRADFORD '23, R. KEITH KANE '22. Pres JAMES B. CONANT '14, honorary degree recipients GEORGE C. MARSHALL, OMAR N. BRADLEY, former Sen. JAMES W. WADSWORTH, J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER '26, I.A. RICHARDS, and T.S. ELIOT...
DIED. Milton Eisenhower, 85, educator, diplomat and valued adviser to six Pres- idents, including his brother Dwight; in Baltimore. The youngest of seven brothers, Milton worked for the Agriculture Department through the Depression years; during World War II he was a top Roosevelt troubleshooter for refugee and relief problems in North Africa, before leaving Government in 1943. He then held three college presidencies: at his alma mater, Kansas State, until 1950; at Pennsylvania State (1950-56); and at Johns Hopkins (1956-67 and 1971-72). The genial, judicious administrator also held several part-time Government posts, among them Special Ambassador...