Article: OBITUARY: Jerome Lawrence.(Comment)

ALL the sweat of bigotry and ignorance,masked as religious devotion, simmered on the red-necked townsfolk in his play about how a young teacher tried to introduce the notion of evolution to a school, where you accepted the absolute truth of Adam and Eve,if you didn't want to be cast into the Land of Nod.

Jerome wrote Inherit the Wind with his writing partner Robert E Lee and it opened in New York in 1955, telling of the midwestern town called Hillsboro, where a young teacher meets hostility when he attempts to introduce Darwinism.

The story was based on the experiences of John Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee, whose introduction of evolution ...

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