Inherit the Wind  On a scorching July day in 1925, a trial began
in Dayton, Tennessee, pitting two intellectual greats of the
time against each other. At issue was a state law banning the
teaching of evolution and a Dayton teacher's knowing
infringement of that law. For twelve days, Tennessee v. John
Thomas Scopes captured the nation's attention as a media circus
swept through Dayton, carrying the historical event to a world
of readers and listeners. But as the trial failed to achieve its
intended purpose - testing the Tennessee law - and the
participants gradually followed each other to the grave, the
once-famed Scopes "Monkey Trial" fell from the public eye and
memory.  Thirty years later, playwrights Jerome Lawrence and
Robert E. Lee published their dramatized account of the trial in
Inherit the Wind. Though they fictionalized and consolidated
much of the actual event, the essence endures. For as they
brought history to life again, they found the central issues
were as current as ever, and the American pub