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...other study, from the Journal of the American Medical Association, documented skyrocketing violence in the inner city. Dr. Leland Ropp and his colleagues in Detroit found that the overall rate of childhood death for all races in their city had risen 50% from 1980 to 1988. Tragically, almost the entire increase was linked to a jump of 250% in the rate of murder, usually by handguns, of black boys ages 10 to 14 and of black teenagers of both sexes, ages...
Preliminary figures show that the epidemic of murder -- fueled by access to cheap, powerful weapons -- spread to other large cities in 1989 and began moving to smaller cities this year. Says Ropp: "We're beginning to see children's homicides and gunshot wounds in places like Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, where we've never seen them before...
Princess & Politics. Dirksen and Ropp produced two other notable theatricals. One was a one-act allegory called The Slave with Two Faces, in which Ev cavorted on stage wearing a ram's-head mask, black socks, short black tights and nothing else. "I remember thinking," recalls one witness, "that the party lines would be buzzing tomorrow." The other was Percy MacKaye's A Thousand, Years Ago, in which Ev played a pulsating lover panting after the charms of the Princess of Pekin. He won her, of course-and he kept he, for the "princess" was played...
...real danger in Western Europe comes from "fascism, from men like De Gaulle and the Pope," Theodore Ropp, visiting lecturer in History said last night, in a Winthrop House AVC speech on "Caccheslovakia in the World Crisis...
According to Ropp, there is no crisis at all. Just as after the last war, we are blaming ourselves for all sorts of things which are not our fault, he said. "No boundary has changed in front of or behind the iron curtain, and no country has come under Russian domination since 1945." What has occured, he says, is "consolidation" inside the East and West, and the reduction of "contrapuntal bitching" by directed revolutions...