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Orders are a chloroform he almost welcomes, for they put to sleep his sense of right and wrong. Thus he becomes chairman of the book-burning committee at his university and, resplendent in his SS uniform, goes out to police the burning of synagogues. His adoring mistress (Felicity Dean) convinces him that if they are good to each other and hurt no one knowingly, they are intrinsically good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pride of the London Season | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...part, taking at face value Astrov's assertion that he can no longer feel anything. Astrov feels things very deeply--his preoccupation with animals and the forests reveals a profound humanitarian urge that has been displaced after losing faith in mankind. He blames himself for killing a patient under chloroform because he no longer wants to heal, and his only hope is that when "we are sleeping in our coffins we might be visited by dreams, perhaps even pleasant ones...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: So Far Away | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...trotting along beside her as she goes round and round with the cleaning; or Blount's modest proposals for new mass media. One scheme would eliminate the more boring moments of life by "quick cutting" people from, say, home to office by means of roving teams armed with chloroform and stretchers. Another would provide a personalized morning newspaper, summarizing what a reader did the night before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fine Red Dirt | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...director of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group, Dr. Sydney Wolfe has prodded federal agencies into protecting the public against a number of health hazards, from Red Dye No. 2 to chloroform. Though Wolfe's critics grudgingly acknowledge his effectiveness, they maintain that he is overzealous. Last week Wolfe gave critics some new ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stir over Darvon | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...removal of chloroform from cough medicines and toothpaste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Valuable Gadfly | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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