Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage, his enthusiasm overcoming his shyness, begging his singers to act their parts instead of grimacing and posturing. There were few in the Met's cast who didn't realize what they were up against. Soprano Regina Resnik is a Britten veteran: she had sung in his Rape of Lucretia in Chicago last year (TIME, June 9). But Tenor Frederick Jagel, who sings the leading role, was worried: "This is so tough dramatically that it becomes tough musically. If I don't watch my step, I end up with my tongue on my chest...
...sensationalism, France Dimanche keeps a certain perspective. It rarely runs rape stories. They are all right for prudish U.S. and British papers, Corre thinks, but the "sexually enlightened" French are uninterested in such sordid affairs unless they have an amusing twist. His curled-lip philosophy of journalism: "A newspaper is scandalous if it doesn't print scandal...
Mayor Denny's letter to TIME illustrates perfectly that complacent attitude of Marion County officialdom toward crime which is culminating in an orgy of rape and murder. Decent citizens won't tolerate...
...lynch plot was discovered. Lieut. Thomas Massie and his collaborators were arrested and convicted of manslaughter -then freed after serving a sentence of one hour. The rape charges against the five men (including the murdered Kahahawai) were dropped for lack of evidence...
...Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors reported last week. Some time ago, the paper had started printing the names of juveniles arrested for vandalism. Result: "A marked decrease in private-property loss through increased parent discipline." Last but hardly least, the Times prints "names of women charging rape if [the] defendant is found not guilty, [thus] providing justifiable protection for men from frustrated women...