Word: raped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Berlin's Freie Volksbühne theater decided to stage a revisionist production of Williams' classic Streetcar Named Desire, he cast black actor Günther Kaufmann as the red necked Stanley Kowalski. Lang's other change was even more radical: rather than being raped by Kowalski, Blanche DuBois is seduced by him. Tennessee learned of Lang's plans just before the opening and immediately got an injunction to stop the performance. Ruling the show could go on, a three-judge panel reinstated the rape and ordered the sepia-skinned Kaufmann to wear...
Some of it works and some of it does not. "To what end?" is a question that is three-quarters silly when queried about a knockabout entertainment, which uses the rape of Nanking as a casual scene shifter. The only answer is, "To the end of the book!" Still, the author does have a point of view: the human race is obsessively and sometimes grandly daft. Whittemore is a first novelist, age 41, an ex-Marine who learned Japanese as a Foreign Service officer in the Far East. He also served Mayor Lindsay in New York's antidrug addiction...
...black crime. In 1968 and again in 1972, blacks were arrested for 27.5% of all crimes. Some decline was registered in the rate of arrests for crimes against property-burglary, larceny, auto theft. But, distressingly, there was a slight rise in the arrest rate for aggravated assault, forcible rape and murder. Thus the ghettos continue to bear a disquieting resemblance to battlefields...
...November, two tragedies occurred in one week, which highlighted the urgency of the matter. Ethel P. Higonnet, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, was shot and killed while walking past Longfellow Park on affluent Brattle Street, one block from her home. She had been the victim of an attempted rape. Shortly afterward, a Harvard secretary, Barbara Brown, was assaulted and struck in the face by a hurled brick while returning from work. Both incidents had taken place in early evening...
...spring the atmosphere had lifted. In May the Office of Women's Education sponsored a conference on rape prevention in anticipation of increasing sexual assaults, and undoubtedly this spring has been as dangerous as any spring in any city. Yet the dark spectre of paranoia from six months ago is gone...