Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunting argues that resident students would otherwise be taxed to maintain facilities such as the library, the Radcliffe offices (the Dean's office, the financial aid office, the admissions office, etc.) which benefit all students. To prove her point, she gave a rough breakdown of college expenses at a Radcliffe Government Association meeting last semester. Critics remained unconvinced and one termed the explanation "a whitewash...
...predominance of such works may be a sign of a breakdown in family technology since the days when the arts of burping and diapering, of baking, basting and berry-bottling, were passed directly from mother to daughter. Similarly, today's boy is caught early in the educational status mill, so that by the time he acquires a split-level of his own, he has failed to learn from Dad, and so must learn from a book, the management of hammer, nails, plane, saw, screwdriver and puttymanship needed to keep the place from falling about his and his loved ones...
...reveals the ease with which two people can escape one another completely. In Warhol's films, people talk at one another, strive for self-definition and expression, and are either too emotionally bombed-out to succeed or else posses too weak a vocabulary. In his dealings with language breakdown, as well as in being prolific, Warhol is our Godard. But where Godard treats subjects with increasingly pedantic seriousness, Warhol still makes grimly hilarious comedies. It is fashionable to accuse Warhol of making identical films for fun and profit, but intelligent artists do not exist in a state of perpetual atrophy...
...bank. They speed away from their jobs in a succession of stolen cars-their Ford coupes, Essex tourer and Marmon Saloon are virtually living members of the cast. The sound track adds a further fillip to the humor; the exuberant banjo picking of Earl Scruggs playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown suggests a comedy chase...
...elaborate than the "anything will do" he asked for as an epitaph. Buried in this courteous and often adoring book are kernels of the familiar sad story of the American artist that poured out in Jarrell's poems. He was recovering or perhaps failing to recover from a nervous breakdown that October in North Carolina. "When I last saw him, not long before his death," Arendt writes, "the laughter was almost gone and he was ready to admit defeat...