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...many other Americans. Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the famous Scopes "monkey trial," in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the merits of the theory of evolution. "Creationists" who still oppose teaching the theory have been trying to get it expunged from school science texts...
...first Holy Year took place in 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII decreed a year known as the "Jubilee," after the Old Testament practice in which debts were forgiven every 50th year. In this case, however, the pardon was from penalties incurred through sin. In Catholic belief, the sinner was freed from eternal punishment (hell) through the sacrament of Penance. But temporal punishment (on earth or in purgatory) remained, and it could be removed in full by an indulgence granted to Holy Year pilgrims by the Pope, who controlled an "inexhaustible" treasury of the merits of Christ, Mary and the saints...
...refuses to predict how far the canvas might stretch, saying only, "The story will run its course-in time." Then Graham will be off to bigger and better things. Already he's planning a re-enactment of Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic on the 50th anniversary of that feat in 1977. But that's a mere stunt compared to his ultimate fantasy. "I'd love to do Napoleon's retreat from Russia," he says. "Wouldn't that...
...events of recent years-Watergate, inflation, recession, the energy crisis and the collapse in Viet Nam-have all overshadowed a less dramatic but potentially durable shift in American life. It is in the way in which the U.S. governs itself. Two years ago, Time Inc. devoted part of its 50th anniversary observance to a search for means by which the Congress could recover the constitutional powers it had lost to an expanding and increasingly dominant presidency. At seminars in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, members of Congress and academic experts expressed fears for the future of the Legislative...
...need a lot of money. Not for myself, but for my dancers, so they can look to a future that is not barren." With that, Modern Dance Doyenne Martha Graham, 80, announced a New York benefit in June to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her revolutionary dance company. For the occasion, Graham plans a new work called Lucifer. The fallen angel will be played by Rudolf Nureyev. "It's a little typecasting," observed Graham. "I think Nureyev is a God of Light." His longtime partner, Margot Fonteyn, is also scheduled to make her first appearance with a modern dance...