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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...
...sure I understand rape at all. I don't see how a woman can be penetrated if she doesn 't cooperate. You just can't thread a moving needle...
Indeed, only 133 out of every 1,000 men tried for rape were convicted in 1972-the lowest rate for any violent crime...
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...