Notes on Inherit the Wind 5* Spencer Tracy, playing Harry Drummond (based on Darrow) examines Fredric March, playing Matthew Harrison Brady (based on Bryan) in the 1960 film version of Inherit the Wind Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote Inherit the Wind as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by […]
A ICEBERG - H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) 5*
Journalist H. L. Mencken described himself as “absolutely devoid of what is called religious feeling.” He attended a Methodist Sunday School as a child but only, he wrote in “The Schooling of a Theologian,” to allow his father—an unbeliever—to have free time for a nap. The human race is so obviously imperfect, he asserted, that […]