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Predictably, the source of Adam's madness is the fact of his survival. He was spared the gas chamber at a German camp by Commandant Klein, "who didn't hate Jews any more than the average butcher hates his cows." Adam agrees to calm and amuse the prisoners on their way to the gas chambers. Even when his wife and daughter pass through the line Adam giggles them on, bowing to Klein's austere logic that it is better to spare them as much final pain as possible: "Nothing disturbed Commandant Klein as much as the dread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rags and Bones | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...Nurses do not need "psychiatric first aid" to treat their responses to the reality of abortion [May 31]. Instead they should act upon their beliefs, speak out and stop the continued transformation of our operating rooms into human butcher shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1971 | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...Cliff Butcher went four innings for Tulsa before coming out in favor of en Petruck. Reggie Rowe finished it up after the sixth, catching Varney twice on curves...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Crimson Nine Falls in World Series, 8-9 | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...business brought about by increased farm mechanization. He recently applied for welfare benefits and was turned down, which acquaintances say thoroughly embittered him. Then there was the ar senal of weapons found in the Sullivan labor camp and Juan's 1971 Chevrolet van: two hunting knives, two butcher knives, a double-bladed ax, a club with possible bloodstains, pistol shells and a machete. Police also discovered empty graves that had apparently been prepared but left unfilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Anatomy of a Murder Suspect | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...Memphis and reads the writing on the wall: the dream of civil rights was a dream after all. The author realizes his skill at self-delusion and acknowledges his long-repressed fears. Come the Washington riots, he sleeps "with a Billy club fashioned from a broomstick and a wicked butcher knife next...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: A White Man Tells All | 5/19/1971 | See Source »

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