Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felony court a police psychiatrist urged that the author be committed to a mental institution. He was "having an acute paranoid breakdown with delusional thinking, and [was] both homicidal and suicidal." Protested Mailer: "It is very important to me not to be sent to some mental institution. I'm a sane man. If this happens, for the rest of my life my work will be considered as the work of a man with a disordered mind. My pride is that as a sane man I can explore areas of experience that other men are afraid of. I insist...
...mood of most of Kirchner's painting is a feverish foreboding, and it was natural that it should be so. In 1914, after volunteering for the artillery. Kirchner had a nervous breakdown and was found to be suffering from tuberculosis. From then on, his life became a battle against alcohol, dope, and, in his last years, the Nazis. In 1937 the Nazis removed 639 of his works from German museums; 32 were displayed in the notorious Munich exhibit of "degenerate art." Less than a year later, at the age of 58, Kirchner ended his life by shooting himself...
...takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
Numerical Breakdown...
...information on births, deaths and disease has been reaching the central government at Léopoldville. As beleaguered U.N. medics struggled to undo the damage wrought by the Belgians' abrupt departure, the job still looked almost hopeless. Said one U.N. doctor: "It is inconceivable that such a breakdown in health services should occur in the 20th century. The Congo is just a few months short of returning to a medieval health pattern...