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  Inherit the Wind & the Scopes Monkey Trial
Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote Inherit the Wind as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era.
Inherit the Wind does not purport to be a historically accurate depiction of the Scopes trial.
"Inherit the Wind is infused with Kramer's liberal sensibility....
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/SCO_INHE.HTM   (995 words)

  
 TCS Daily - Inherit the Wind?
Such will be the profusion of 400-foot-high wind turbine propellers on view if proposals to build more than 6,500 turbines on 200 wind farms covering more than 1,000 square miles get the go-ahead.
Offshore wind farms, where the visual aesthetic is also much less of an issue and where wind speeds are up to 90 percent greater, have a far greater power-producing efficiency.
In June of this year, hot on the heels of a report claiming that the threat to the bird population was exaggerated, came another report showing that wind farms off the coast of Norway are destroying a population of Europe's largest rare bird of prey.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=070706C   (1080 words)

  
 Proverbs 11:29 He who troubles his own house will inherit wind, And
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
bible.cc /proverbs/11-29.htm   (822 words)

  
 Inherit The Wind
Wind is gaining new favor as a renewable source of energy in today’s energy-starved market.
The intermittent nature of wind is a challenge for those hoping to capitalize on one of nature’s most renewable elements.
Modern wind turbines, which have an installed cost of approximately $1 million each, are equipped with sensors that constantly monitor their workings.
www.ibew.org /articles/01journal/0109/wind.htm   (1071 words)

  
 Free Essays - Inherit The Wind
Inherit the Wind has all the components of a fantastic movie, one that illustrates that some changes may even be worth fighting for.
Inherit the Wind was adapted from the play of the same title written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
Inherit the Wind does not avoid these realities, but it also manages to bring out the gray areas of law and moral issues, thus making it more relevant to those who are watching.
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 "Inherit the Wind" Show Page
The Official TACIT Inherit The Wind Home Page is produced by Theater Arts at Caltech and includes a synopsis of the play, character breakdowns and links to movie and television productions of the play.
Lyrics to Inherit the Wind by Eddie Rabbit is another use of the Biblical allusion.
Inherit the Wind A site produced by Lyndsey McCabe as a project for the American Studies Program at The University of Virginia, April 1996.
www.a2ct.org /archives/show/inheritthewind.htm   (474 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind - Theater - Review - New York Times
If the Bible-quoting fundamentalists in “Inherit the Wind” want to make a case for the spark of divinity that separates man from beast, they need only point to the show’s august star, having the time of his life, as Exhibit A. Approaching the end of his eighth decade, Mr.
The enduring appeal of “Inherit the Wind” is not as a play of ideas, which are mostly expressed in the manner of stump speeches, but as an occasion for two seasoned stars to trade punches in the boxing ring of the courtroom.
But for “Inherit the Wind” to be more than a yellowing position paper, you must be convinced that these are characters who exist in a very particular time and place, where it happens to be hotter than, well, hell.
theater2.nytimes.com /2007/04/13/theater/reviews/13wind.html   (1430 words)

  
 Trial as a Circus
At several key moments during the trial as portrayed in Inherit the Wind, the lawyer characters based on Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan actually turn their backs on the judge and jury, and address remarks directly to the appreciative courtroom audience, which cheers, hisses, and provides a cacophony of catcalls.
Inherit the Wind does a masterful job of exposing the underlying motives of civic boosterism that pervade the trial.
Inherit the Wind serves up generous portions of drama and romance, and that's where the film parts company with the historical events that actually occurred in Dayton.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/usf/uelman30.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inherit the Wind, in both the movies and the play, takes much poetic license, meaning that the writers do not try to present things as they actually happened, but instead use key events to craft a story, embellishing them according to the needs of drama.
It was not until the 1960s that the Scopes trial began to be mentioned in the history textbooks of American high schools and colleges, usually as an example of the conflict between fundamentalists and modernists, and often in sections that also talked about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.
Inherit the Wind portrays the Cates/Scopes character as unfairly persecuted.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inherit_the_Wind   (1962 words)

  
 Playbill News: Plummer and Dennehy to Inherit the Wind on Broadway
Playbill News: Plummer and Dennehy to Inherit the Wind on Broadway
Plummer and Dennehy to Inherit the Wind on Broadway
Inherit The Wind is based on the famous Scopes "Monkey" trial of 1925 where two lawyers battle over the right of a science teacher to educate his students on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
www.playbill.com /news/article/102527.html   (441 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind Summary and Study Guide - Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
Inherit the Wind, however, has thrived for over three decades, suggesting an attraction for theater-goers far greater than that of a quaint look at America's past.
Inherit the Wind then, is far more than the story of twelve exciting days in a Tennessee courtroom; it is a narrative of a nation and its people as they struggle to come to grips with the forces of change.
Inherit the Wind, made in 1960, is a dramatized retelling of the 1925 "Scopes...
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 The Truth About Inherit the Wind   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Altogether, Inherit the Wind supplies the view most Americans have of the Scopes Trial, and it often surfaces in response to some development in the never-ending quarrels between evolutionists and creationists.
While Inherit the Wind remains faithful to the broad outlines of the historical events it portrays, it flagrantly distorts the details, and neither the fictionalized names nor the cover of artistic license can excuse what amounts to an ideologically motivated hoax.
It also shows, contrary to Inherit the Wind, that he was familiar with Darwin, and may even have understood the evolutionary doctrine better than his adversaries, or at least had a better idea of what was really at stake.
www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9702/iannone.html   (3554 words)

  
 GradeSaver: Inherit the Wind - Study Guide - About Inherit the Wind
To that end, Lawrence and Lee emphasize that Inherit the Wind is not meant to be taken as literal historical fact.
To be sure, Inherit the Wind is a play about the clash between Northern and Southern culture.
The conflict between North and South in Inherit the Wind functions as a harbinger of the greater conflict to come in the South during the 1960s.
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 Wired 15.02: Inherit the Wind
Wind energy is the most promising carbon-free, nonnuclear alternative to fossil-fueled grid power.
But regions with enough space and breeze for land-based wind farms—mostly in the Midwest—are far from coastal population centers; the cost of running transmission lines between generators and users is a major disincentive.
Average wind speed is exceptionally high, and it blows hardest during the hottest hours of the day, when demand for power is at its peak and electricity prices are highest.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/15.02/wind.html   (1095 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind
One of the first cases of religion versus the law was in 1925 during the now famous Scopes Monkey trial where a school teacher faced charges of teaching evolution in a public school.
Not only was this a landmark case it gave rise to one of the most gripping dramas in American culture, Inherit the Wind.
Inherit the Wind is based upon a stage play and Kramer manages to retain the look and feel of such a production.
www.hometheaterinfo.com /inherit_the_wind.htm   (1234 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Inherit the Wind (xhtml)
Stanley Kramer's "Inherit the Wind" (1960) is a movie about a courtroom battle between those who believe the Bible is literally true and those who believe, as the Spencer Tracy character puts it, that "an idea is a greater monument than a cathedral."
"Inherit the Wind" is typical of the films produced and directed by Stanley Kramer (1913-2001), a liberal who made movies that had opinions and took stands.
Strange, that 46 years after it was made and 81 years after the Scopes trial, it is "Inherit the Wind" among all of Kramer's films that seems most relevant and still generates controversy.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060128/REVIEWS08/601290301   (1303 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is the first in a two-part story on Inherit the Wind and origin of life views.
LETTER FROM LONDON: 'Inherit the Wind' - Irfan Husain Fundamentalists insist that religious texts contain the literal word of God, while rationalists argue that the scriptures should be read as parables and...
Just caugh at few minutes of Inherit the Wind -- the version produced the same year I was.
www.topix.net /movies/inherit-the-wind/pr   (1109 words)

  
 CA045: Fictional "Inherit the Wind"
The movie Inherit the Wind, a fictional account of the famous Scopes trial, is misleading propaganda.
Inherit the Wind is fiction and was intended as such from the beginning.
So Inherit the Wind does not pretend to be journalism.
www.talkorigins.org /indexcc/CA/CA045.html   (326 words)

  
 teacherslounge - An interdisciplinary unit on Inherit The Wind
Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, was first performed in 1955.
Benefits of the Movie: "Inherit the Wind" can be used to introduce children to the pivotal question that must be resolved by all democracies, i.e., the balance between the rights of the majority and those of the individual.
"Inherit the Wind" is not, and was not intended to be, historically accurate.
teacherslounge.editme.com /InherittheWind   (7887 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind - Inherit the Wind on Broadway Tickets
Inherit the Wind dramatizes the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial" in which a Tennessee science teacher, John Scopes, was tried and convicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, violating a Tennessee law that forbade teaching any theory that conflicted with the Biblical conception of Divine Creation.
This revival of Inherit the Wind comes after the original 1955 mounting of the play, a 1960 big-screen adaptation starring Spencer Tracy and Frederic March, and a 1996 revival.
When you choose the Inherit the Wind Show you would like to attend, press the VIEW then the BUY button or call us dire ctly.
www.moodybluestickets.com /theater_tickets/inherit_the_wind_tickets.html   (282 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Inherit The Wind (1960): DVD: Stanley Kramer,Claude Akins,Donna Anderson,Jr. Noah Beery,Jimmy Boyd,Philip ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Inherit the Wind, based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a slightly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, that galvanizing legal drama of the 1920s.
Stanley Kramer's Inherit The Wind is the topical movie that has aged better than almost anything else in Kramer's directorial output.
That's from the big scene in "Inherit the Wind": the showdown between Henry Drummond (the fictional stand-in for Clarence Darrow) and the unfortunate Mr.
www.amazon.ca /Inherit-Wind-Stanley-Kramer/dp/B00005PJ6V   (2434 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind - Moviefone
Inherit the Wind - Movie Review and Sounds Review of and sounds from the movie Inherit the Wind starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, and Dick York.
Inherit The Wind (1960) The film's title was taken from the Biblical book of Proverbs 11:29: "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind."...
Inherit the Wind - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
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 Inherit the Wind
It was on this date, April 21, 1955, that Inherit the Wind, the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee dramatizing the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of the summer of 1925, opened at the National Theatre on Broadway.
It is a mistake to take Inherit the Wind at face value, as a clash between two pop stars of the 1920s (Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan) or even solely as a clash of cultures, North and South.
Of course Inherit the Wind is not an accurate reflection of history, but that is beside the point of 1950s didactic theater.
www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0421almanac.htm   (460 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind
The purpose of this study was to carefully compare the film "Inherit The Wind" with the actual transcript of the Scopes trial as well as with various biographical and historical accounts of the trial and its participants.
A commercial video tape version of the entire film "Inherit The Wind" (CBS Fox Video, Copyright 1960; United Artists) was used to allow repeated examination of the entire film, or portions thereof; these were then compared for literal, contextual and historical accuracy with the trial transcript and other historical records as indicated.
Perhaps the most significant fact is that the movie "Inherit The Wind" chose to ignore virtually all of the scientific commentary and testimony that was presented during the trial including that of Dr. Maynard Metcalf.
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 Inherit the Wind: The Truth About the "Real Brady" (William Jennings Bryan) of the Scopes Monkey Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Inherit the Wind, a play, book, and a movie based on the trial, paints an entertaining roster of characters, but when the curtain closes and the credits roll, it leaves one wondering what is true and what is not.
The biology textbook at the center of the 1925 Scopes trial, and also referred to in Inherit the Wind, was Hunter's Civic Biology.
Actually, the atmosphere at the Scopes trial was not as highly charged with the vindictiveness that Inherit the Wind describes.
www.godandscience.org /evolution/scopes.html   (1113 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The purpose of this study was to carefully compare the film "Inherit The Wind" with the actual transcript of the Scopes trial as well as with various biographical and historical accounts of the trial and its participants.
A commercial video tape version of the entire film "Inherit The Wind" (CBS Fox Video, Copyright 1960; United Artists) was used to allow repeated examination of the entire film, or portions thereof; these were then compared for literal, contextual and historical accuracy with the trial transcript and other historical records as indicated.
Perhaps the most significant fact is that the movie "Inherit The Wind" chose to ignore virtually all of the scientific commentary and testimony that was presented during the trial including that of Dr. Maynard Metcalf.
www.evolution-facts.org /InherittheWind.htm   (7303 words)

  
 Inherit the Wind (1960) - Overview - MSN Movies
Synopsis: The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind.
Stanley Kramer's Inherit The Wind is the topical movie that has aged better than almost anything else in Kramer's directorial output.
In contrast to most of the social-issue films that he directed, including On the Beach, Inherit the Wind often seems as immediate and gripping as it did in 1960, mostly because its issues have not gone away.
movies.msn.com /Movies/movie.aspx?m=30169&mp=m&affid=100037   (186 words)

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