He is a two-time O'Neill playwright who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. His novels of adventure, comedy, and mystery have received the Children's Choice Award, an Edgar Award nomination, and honors from the American Library Association, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. Readers will devour this colorful yet tender story - reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird - told from the perspective of a young girl as she evolves into a woman.Ībout the Author: Ronald Kidd is the author of the highly acclaimed Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial, as well as On Beale Street. RONALD KIDD is the author of fourteen novels for young readers, including the highly acclaimed Night on Fire and Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial. Overnight the world is flocking to Dayton to decide: Are people really descended from monkeys? Does the theory of evolution have a place in biology class? As Frances sees the man she loves crumbling beside her, she begins to question her town, her neighbors, and the father she has always trusted. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan. But when Frances's father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest place on earth becomes a hotbed for famous thinkers, including H. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. Synopsis: In a story rife with first love and the pain of growing up, master storyteller Ronald Kidd reincarnates the most enduring trial of the twentieth century.
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The emphasis on historicity (or lack of it) has dominated discussion about the play. Neither spoke or wrote directly about the event and its impact, both of which have remained a matter of historical speculation. The meeting was uncomfortable, for Bohr was on one side in the war and Heisenberg on the other. The setting for the meeting (but not for the play) was comfortable it was a place where they had worked and talked together. The event they strive to understand is a meeting in occupied Copenhagen during WWII. The two were also philosophers who considered the connections between scientific knowledge and life. These men are not, however, ordinary: they are Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, whose work was foundational in quantum mechanics and in atomic physics. Their encounter is human: full of memories and memory lapses, as well as affection and denial. Another person is present and offers her insights into their affinities and variances. Politics divided them, yet as they talk about their past, other tensions, such as competitiveness, come to the fore. Science brought them together they felt like father and son or director and boy Friday. Copenhagen is a play about two men in a complex relationship who come together in the afterlife to understand their friendship and its strains. It was mainly a reaction to the very forceful, brutal and rapid process of industrialization of the country during this time, which threatened to dissolve all ancient values and beliefs and replace them with the cold and rational calculations of commodity production. Neo-romanticism, as a moral and social critique of ‘progress’ and of modern Zivilisation-in the name of a nostalgic loyalty to the traditional Kultur-became the dominant trend among the German intelligentsia from the end of the nineteenth century to the rise of fascism. W alter Benjamin’s style of thinking is unique and resists classification, but it can be better understood and explained if related to the cultural atmosphere of Mittel-Europa at the beginning of the century, and to certain religiouspolitical undercurrents among German-speaking Jewish intellectuals of this period. |