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...with the Butcher. The other world was evoked first by Claude Brown, 28, a forceful, outspoken Negro who at age five saw his father slit a man's throat, later spent time in reform school after peddling heroin in his Harlem neighborhood. Now a Rutgers University law student, Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Menchildren Speak | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

Poret, a carpenter's apprentice who had formerly lived in California, placed a classified ad in a Los Angeles newspaper declaring that he was condemned to death for a crime he had not committed. When a Los Angeles butcher named Nelson Soil offered free legal aid, a 7-ft. flaming cross was suddenly planted on his lawn. Labat's more successful publicity apparently irked Poret; last year a prison official told newsmen that the two convicts "were not on speaking terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: In the Shadow of the Chair | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...cast. Tom Babe, his voice lowered an octave, plays Woyzeck as if he were a tormented animal. I thought at first that he was too powerful in the opening scenes, but the performance continued to build skillfully in intensity. Babe is great with props; whenever his hand touches the butcher's knife, you can't take your eyes...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Woyzeck | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...upstairs to a front bedroom where Miss Amurao was sleeping, he knocked on her door. Politely, she opened it. "A man was standing there," she recalled. "The first thing I noticed about him was the strong odor of alcohol." He had a small black pistol in one hand, a butcher knife in the other. Then, continued Corazon, "he made me go down the hall to a middle bedroom. He stopped at this bedroom and awakened three girls there. He made the four of us go into the back bedroom, where two other girls were sleeping. He said he wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: One by One | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...home. I want the person brought to my hospital where he can be put in an intensive care unit. Going to the home just wastes time." If the variety of specialists makes some people feel that their body is being treated like a diagram in a butcher's shop, U.S. doctors retort that this is only the necessary fragmentation of a science advancing too fast and grown too complex for any one man to know all there is to know. Even so, the average doctor works 60 hours a week, and one out of three works a 70-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Rx FROM THE PATIENT: Physician, Heal Thyself | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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