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Thus, the symbolic significance of the act should not be lost on anyone. The nation's leaders have been presented with an opportune time to express their attitudes towards minority concerns. To be sure, Blacks and minorities will be watching closely for a confirmation of their worst fears. Perhaps Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., president of the National Urban League, expressed this sentiment best, when he said before the subcommittee, "I do not trust white people in the South with my rights. I did not before the act. I do not 17 years later." A responsible government would take this opportunity...
Other figures committee members said it was considering two weeks ago included Vernon Jordan, former Rep. Robert Drinan, Richard Pryor, Andrew Young, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Garry Trudeau, and Gloria Steinem...
...Vernon Grounds, former president of the Denver Theological Seminary, told a Saturday afternoon audience that although he is a leading--and longstanding--evangelical Christian, he is distressed by "evangelicalism's unconcern with regard for peacemaking...
...Mendel's work was revived in 1900, his experiments dealt Darwinism a nearly fatal blow. The popularity of Darwin's thought was already on the decline when Mendelism came into favor, but the monk's researches seemed to influence greater reproach for his theory. In 1907 a biologist named Vernon Grant had written a book citing dozens of objections to Darwin's theory and offering 24 alternate explanations of evolution. Many of his ideas sprang directly from the studies of Mendel. It seemed as if the work of two of the 19th century's greatest biologists was hopelessly irreconcilable...
There is quite a lot of "narrative" art, disconnected accumulations of words and images that owe something to Jasper Johns, something to James Rosenquist. The most conspicuous new practitioner is a Texan named Vernon Fisher, 37, the only artist represented in all three shows. But political content hardly appears at all. The sole artist concerned with it is an Englishman, Conrad Atkinson (Hirsh-horn), who makes ferocious indictments-by-assemblage over such issues as Northern Ireland and asbestos poisoning of workers. His accumulations of data-letters, text panels, photos of graffiti and so on-undergo very little aesthetic transformation...