Word: roper
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According to the London Times, chemical analyses of the paper and ink were then conducted. Wrote Trevor-Roper, the author and editor of several books on Hitler: "When I had entered the back room in the Swiss bank and turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." Trevor-Roper says that notes pasted on many of the diaries' covers state that they were the personal property of the Führer and that in the event of his death, they were to be given to Julius Schaub, his longtime adjutant...
...special news-media issue of the Wilson Quarterly, Professor Lawrence W. Lichty at the University of Maryland challenges the idea that TV news is so dominant. Judging the argument involves assessing the nitpicking of several interested parties. Back in 1959 the Roper Organization, commissioned by the television industry, began asking this question, repeating it every two years: "Where do you usually get most of your news about what's going on in the world today"? The last time, in 1980, 64% cited TV, 44% newspapers, 18% radio, 5% magazines and 4% "talking to people." But that adds...
...explain his observation that "the ideological and strategic impasse at which Black America finds itself is a result of our leadership having tied itself to the liberal agenda?" There is no poll data or other evidence showing that Blacks think they are facing an ideological dead-end. A 1979 Roper survey found 80 percent of Blacks "agreeing" that "life for our children will be better than for us." A 1981 Roper survey found 69 percent of Blacks responding "very good" or "fairly good" to the query--"How do you think your chances are of achieving the good life?" Surely these...
Says Forman Teacher Margaret Roper: "I don't think of these kids as handicapped. There is no limit to where you can take them after you find the key." Despite the well-publicized view of New York Physician Harold Levinson, who argues that dyslexia is a disorder of the inner ear and can be dealt with by taking antihistamines, experts insist that dyslexia is not a disease...
Dean of students Archie C. Epps III, whose workload dips when there are no students around, said he plans to finish Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy along with some Hugh Trevor-Roper history of 17th century England. For others he proposes reading...