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...crown of the first week's operatic offerings was the Figaro-tender, witty, effortlessly buoyant. The spectacle of servants outwitting their masters, so inflammatory in Mozart's day, was given charm and point by Baritone Walter Berry, as a rather phlegmatic Figaro, and Soprano Lucia Popp, as his pert fiancee. Baritone Hans Helm and especially Soprano Gundula Janowitz, as the count and countess, played along with aristocratic good grace...
...limiting resource." In other words, because women do most of the work to bring children into the world, they are in the position of sellers in a scarce market, and men must line up to buy. This principle explains the natural evolution of what DeVore and his colleague Joseph Popp have called "prostitution behavior" in higher species. A female chimp in estrus will use a sexual come-on to get more than her share of food. Even a very dominant male cannot afford to alienate the most precious of all resources-a willing female. Sociobiology also explains why, in most...
...extinction of an entire breeding population or local group. Dispersal, adoption or marriage into the victorious group, or slavery seem more often to have been the fate of those defeated. In pre-state societies genocide appears likely to have been a costly strategy. Recent works by Parker (1975) and Popp and DeVore (in press), based on the same body of theory as is Sociobiology, suggest why this should be so: individuals threatened with death and the death of their kinsmen can adaptively expend far more energy in self-defense than can individuals threatened only with the loss of a valuable...
Chall told The Crimson Sunday that she had consulted the other members of the reading section, Carol Chomsky, lecturer on Education, and Helen Popp, associate professor of Education, before sending the memorandum...
Died. Michael Popp, 62, Ike's Army tailor during World War II who, after the general complained about his bulky, hip-length officer's jacket, snipped out the natty, waist-length "Eisenhower jacket," which became the most popular bit of military wardrobe since the trench coat; of a heart attack; in Hamilton, Ohio...