Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...documentary is most convincing when it examines the sociological breakdown of the Branch Davidians. The members of the Branch Davidians included a large number of elderly and children. The people who composed the Branch Davidians were of diverse ethnicities. Waco essentially questions the public's conception of the Branch Davidians, personalizing them as victims of their own beliefs...
...immune system; it rejects such deeds as the Cambridge murder and necrophilia in the way that a healthy body rejects an invasion of microbes. This vigorous state of mind has no sympathy for what it identifies as alien life forms and thinks such sympathy would be dangerous weakness, a breakdown of a society's natural defenses. In some ways, of course, it is right...
Still, Updike estranges the reader by overindulging Turnbull's lapses into fantasy. Depressed by his own breakdown, Turnbull takes to imagining himself in other eras, picturing himself as an Egyptian grave robber, a disciple of the Apostle Paul in the early church, etc. One can only assume that these departures are supposed to orient Turnbull's life and ever-present death in the greater span of history--to connect his existence with others' in some all-encompassing cyclic understanding. In comparison with the use of imagination in such classic Updike as The Centaur, however, these elderly wet dreams seem positively...
...clique-ish isolation that for me was nearly fatal. The Masters rejected the proposal, taking a stance that has come to typify the University reaction as a whole: rather than acknowledging a problem of far-ranging scope, Harvard prefers to insulate itself by writing off each death, each breakdown, as an isolated and otherwise forgettable incident. Like so many of its constituent individuals, Harvard allows ego and reputation to justify nearsightedness and inertia...
...Saturday's Yard gate dedication and the glossy brochures dropped in the houses remind us, it has been 25 years since women were welcomed as equals in Harvard Yard. And yet, if the gender breakdown of this year's Undergraduate Council is any indication, women are still not adequately represented at Harvard...