Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violent Response. De Gaulle himself is still confronted by the two imponderables: the Algerian F.L.N. and his own French army. The breakdown of peace talks with the rebel F.L.N. at Lugrin over Algerian demands for all of the oil-rich Sahara came as an unpleasant surprise to Paris...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, winding up a two-year probe of Hamilton Oil & Gas Corp., charged Leahy with making "misleading" statements in the peddling of $230,000 of the company's now nearly worthless stock. Responded former Hamilton Vice President Leahy, who suffered a business-induced nervous breakdown last year: "I feel that the SEC knows that I am guilty only of overenthusiasm and lack of experience. If it is God's last act on earth for me, I'll repay all the friends and relatives who bought stock on my personal recommendation...
Break with Freud. Jung classified basic personality types as extraverts or introverts, then added a breakdown by function: "With perception, you know something is there. Thinking tells you what it is. Feeling tells you what it is worth to you or to others. And intuition tells what the damn thing comes from or goes to." Finally, in the persistence of religious movements throughout history, Jung saw an archetypal need for a religious attitude. A religion did not need to be formalized, he insisted; but to be emotionally healthy, a man must have made his peace with the unseen and perhaps...
...Breakdown in the Cadres. On a stopover in Hong Kong, Columnist Joseph Alsop, who rarely finds much to encourage him, listened to the latest stories from refugees trickling out of Red China and detected signs of "a breakdown of the iron, super-Spartan discipline which the Chinese Communists enforced with such astonishing success during their first twelve years in power." The dedication and austerity of the party cadres were once the party's pride, and officials boasted that the Communists had at last freed China from the ancient practice of "squeeze" and bribery. Under the pressure of famine, Alsop...
...have become fairly common, and so have raids by hungry villagers on the carefully locked-up communal grain stores. The police-enforced compliant silence of the people is being broken, too. Bitter rhymes and slogans mocking the Communists are now quite often reported by refugees." Concluded Columnist Alsop: "The breakdown of discipline must mean that the conditions are beginning to exist in which a small spark can light a gigantic fire...