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Freedom Is Crime. The hero, Hans Barlach, is a retired Swiss police commissioner, convalescing from an operation for cancer. He comes to suspect that a notorious doctor who performed experimental operations without anesthetic in Nazi concentration camps may be the same surgeon who is running a swank sanitarium near Zurich...
Tortured or Torturer. What does it all mean? There is the recurrent Duerrenmatt theme: the uncertainty of justice and the universality of guilt in a world in which "there is only one difference between human beings-that between torturers and tortured." Again there is the relish in operating on the...
In practice, Drs. Atkins and Seaman and others on the Columbia-Presbyterian team, pick patients with advanced cancer to treat with oxygen and radiation. According to a carefully devised procedure, such a patient gets an anesthetic injected into his veins, and a rubber hose is threaded down his windpipe so...
Other easing of the harsh Wahabi code can be seen at every hand. Goal posts stand far out in the desert for the benefit of passing nomads who have taken up soccer. Thieves now get their right hands chopped off in the public square only after the third offense. A...
Adolf Hitler, like most nightmares, is a pleasure to forget. Nevertheless, the world in 1961 has apparently gained what might be called an anesthetic distance from the monstrous paperhanger, and has suddenly decided to re-examine the great plague he personified. The Eichmann trial is making headlines, and William L...