Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choked with emotion, Muskie began to weep as he announced the title to the crowd. "This man doesn't walk, he crawls," sobbed Muskie. He tried to regain his composure, then said loudly: "He's talking about my wife." Muskie calmed himself; unfortunately for him, however, his breakdown was caught by CBS-TV cameras and shown round the country...
...fired. His cinematographer seemed to obstruct more than help. "I'd tell the guy how I wanted to shoot the scene," says Coppola, "and he'd say, 'Oh, that's dumb.'" Evans decided after three weeks that Coppola was near a nervous breakdown and never knew whether the director would show up the following day. But Coppola got rid of the key detractors, came to an understanding with the cinematographer-for whom he still has high professional regard-and kept showing up. "I had to hang in," he says. "Everything was at stake...
...mounting tide of hatred and violence, of obstinacy and impatience and disillusionment is leading to a breakdown of traditional values in a society that has for generations been revered for its respect for justice, humanity, law and order. Nowhere do I see the leadership that might steer the nation away from its disastrous course...
...This is understandable, particularly for a poet, since, as Eliot said, a poet at that point in life is faced with the choice of repeating old formulas or going through the agony of trying to break into new kinds of composition. Biographies of poets invariably contain a crisis or breakdown, or suicide at this stage of life. And indeed, Dickey relates how his is groping for a new kind of poetry that will be different from anything being written today. This problem is that he is vague in these journals about what kind of poetry this is going...
Schwaab said he knew of the girl with whom Schorsch had had relations, and said that Schorsch was responsible for bringing the girl to "a mental breakdown...