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...have been wiped out, and the power of the State over the individual would have been greatly weakened...Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has not been towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity...Few people have yet considered its implications--that is, the kind of world-view, the kinds of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable...
Unfortunately such lighthearted charm is missing from the rest of Shepherd's part as the film melodramatically portrays Gil's breakdown after the bank forecloses on his loans. His seemingly over night metamorphosis from a conscientious father to a drunk who beats up his son is a sudden and unbelievable...
...appearance followed that of Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta, who told the delegates that the U.S. planned to launch an invasion of his country on the same date, an accusation that a State Department spokesman dismissed as "preposterous." Meanwhile, it appeared that a final breakdown may have occurred in negotiations between Nicaragua's Sandinista government and a group of democratic opponents who want a postponement of that country's scheduled Nov. 4 elections...
Your discussion of androgyny in our society misses the point entirely [SEXES, July 23]. What would you say about a man who wears velvet pants, lace collars, silk stockings, a purse and a perfumed handkerchief? Would you consider him part of the breakdown of civilization as we know it? No, he is Louis XIV of France. History repeats itself, especially fashion history, and that is all this manifestation is, fashion regression...
...Bursting water pipes sometimes cause daylong shortages. One-third of Cairo's residents live in buildings that are not connected to any sewage system, and the system that exists was designed for only 2 million people. When it overflowed into homes in Old Cairo two years ago, the breakdown led to serious rioting...