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Ironically, the tearful Marylyn Painter sounded practically lowan. "We love our home," she said. "We've sewed curtains and fixed Mark's room. We're quiet people. We watch TV, baby-sit for friends, play chess. I do play the guitar -that sounds bohemian, I guess...
Despite that analysis, public reaction last week seemed to sharply favor the Painters. In an angry letter to the court, Eugene Austin, chairman of the Nebraska Council on Family Law, called the ruling "an act of tyranny, pure and simple." The Iowa Civil Liberties Union discussed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps on the ground that the decision violated Painter's religious freedom. Painter himself was bitter. "What they've said," he commented, "is that if parents don't conform to a middle-class Middle Western mode of living, they face loss of their children...
Distraught, and anxious to give himself and his son a chance to recover from the tragedy, Painter sent Mark to live temporarily with his wife's parents on their 80-acre farm in Ames, Iowa. In the fall of 1964, Painter married his second wife, Marylyn, an artist, a Phi Beta Kappa Berkeley graduate and a former Red Cross worker in Japan and Korea. The newlyweds moved into a ramshackle old Victorian house in Walnut Creek near San Francisco and concentrated on turning it into a warm, imaginatively decorated home for themselves and Mark. Formerly night copy editor...
Speaking for the court, Justice William C. Stuart noted that the gentle, ailing, "highly respected" Mr. Bannister "has served on the school board and regularly teaches a Sunday-school class at the Gilbert Congregational Church." By contrast, Justice Stuart pointed to Painter's seven jobs in ten years, asserted that he is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training. He has read a lot of Zen Buddhism." Though Marylyn is a Roman Catholic, the couple planned to send Mark to a Congregational church "on an irregular schedule." Painter, added Stuart...
...conformist who chose to cleave to a tradition of dissent. Rexroth has some thing like Chamber of Commerce status in San Francisco, safely beached on the shore where the last wave of American radicalism washed up. He is a legend as poet, horse wrangler, hobo, perpetual avant-gardesman, painter, and finally, at 60, Grand Old Man of what used to be called the Youth Racket...