Word: roper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HUGH TREVOR-ROPER...
That ingredient can be found throughout Hermit of Peking, a model of historical detective work. The unfailingly literate sleuth is Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of The Last Days of Hitler and The Rise of Christian Europe, who has ventured far from his customary turf. In 1973, Trevor-Roper came upon two volumes of unpublished memoirs by Sir Edmund. The work appeared so outrageous, so incongruent with the accepted character of the author-it chronicled, in obscene detail, his amours with Chinese eunuchs and such European celebrities as Poet Paul Verlaine -that Trevor-Roper felt compelled to investigate the Backhouse background...
Pollster George Gallup Jr. feels that Carter is managing to get across the idea that he is "the people's President." Adds a colleague. Burns Roper: "I expect his people-to-people campaign will be highly successful. Historically, all polls show that the No. 1 attribute people seek in a President is honesty and openness. That was true before Johnson and Nixon, but it is even more true...
Teilhard's works have become "the property of a cabal of admirers, quite outside the mainstream of modern thought," assert the Lukases. Opinions vary on whether that will change. The secular scientists whom Teilhard had hoped to attract tend to ignore his work. British Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper recently dismissed him as one of the "great charlatans" of modern letters. His influence among Protestant thinkers is minimal...
...national willingness to see a new President make good is traditional. Pollster Burns Roper found, for example, that during the period between election and inauguration, 64% of those reached in one survey described themselves as Carter supporters-"a measure of the good will he commands." Yet the really tough decisions, the ones that will divide people, lie ahead...