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...Green's case has divided Utah, where polygamy, although banned a century ago by both the state and its dominant religious group, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is nonetheless still widely practiced. The last bigamy trial was held in the 1950s, and today an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 people live in polygamous households in Utah. But Green's wives were particularly young when he married them--14 to 16. And unlike most polygamists, who live discreetly, Green has been vocal in his support of plural marriage. An interview he gave...
...root out cheats, not to process legitimate claims. When Rafi Pinto took over the department six years ago, his predecessor told him, "Your job is to save the state's money." Only in 1997 did Pinto publish details of survivors' entitlements that had been on the books since the 1950s. "There was a problem," he says. "People really didn't know what they were due." The number of survivors making claims quadrupled...
Segal often adopted methods of literary criticism that were widely used in English departments but not yet practiced by classics scholars. In particular, Segal welcomed the “new criticism” of the 1940s and 1950s that read literature outside of its historical context, as well as later “structuralist” interpretations that stressed how authors developed their own internal structures within pieces of literature...
Preacher, activist, follower of Gandhi's principles of nonviolent resistance, King had emerged as the champion of American blacks' crusade for civil rights. A veteran of the Montgomery, Ala., bus protests of the 1950s and the Southern sit-ins of the '60s, King came to the fore in the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., demonstrations for desegregation. In the same year he led 200,000 in the March on Washington and gave the galvanizing "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people," said his colleague the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. King...
...million Copies of The Hobbit sold this year--the most since its 1937 publication--in advance of the film opening this week of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first in Tolkien's 1950s Lord of the Rings trilogy...