Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casting a disapproving eye on the vast roundup of contemporary art at the Venice Biennale (TIME, June 28), the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano last week pronounced the whole show an "artistic debacle." Wrote the Vatican critic: "This is a demonstration of the breakdown of art in modern times. It is so bad that a mere wooden bowl becomes, in this exhibition, a piece of sculpture, while entanglements of wires are considered statues." But what riled the Vatican most were the few paintings dealing with sacred subjects, one of which showed Christ as a skeleton...
...TheU.S. is well on the way to a nervous breakdown, declared the Rev. Edward Aloysius Conway, S.J., associate editor of the Jesuit weekly America, at the commencement exercises of the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. "The mind of the nation is becoming troubled, and its nerves are already frayed . . . How else explain the rising mistrust of each other, the roaring bitterness, the ranging of Americans against Americans, the scapegoat hunts, the assault on freedom of opinion, the intolerance of opposition, the increase in calumny, demagoguery, bigotry and smear? I am afraid it is because fear and frustration abound...
...talks at Geneva hobbled along at a pace somewhere between a balk and a breakdown. The Communists planned it that...
...court's decision will produce no immediate results; in fact it may be ten years or more before integration is realized, Howe pointed out. He praised the court's positive action rather than waiting for the natural breakdown of the "separate but equal" school process legal since 1895. If Southern leaders show magnitude and statesmanship, the law will be acceptable sooner, Howe said. "I hope they will show it, but I doubt...
...moment came last week, and as Nasser deftly dumped Naguib from the driver's seat, there was barely a murmur of protest in Cairo. Naguib himself, who recently suffered a nervous breakdown, was in no condition to fight back. In fact, Naguib proclaimed that "we are now stronger than ever and we shall go ahead in a united front." To keep tab on Naguib and to make sure that he does not cause any more trouble. Strongman Nasser announced the creation of a new Cabinet post: Ministry of Presidential Affairs...