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...personal life was another matter. He was almost painfully aware of his family responsibilities and he took reverses very hard. He had already been divorced once, and after the death of his father in 1956 and a series of bone-wearying negotiations with other publishers, he suffered a nervous breakdown that hospitalized him for six months. After periodic relapses, his second marriage was also dissolved. A third divorce was probably imminent. Since 1963 he had been less and less able to exercise command; control of Field Enterprises, Inc., passed into the hands of the three other trustees who direct...
Prodigy & Breakdown. Goethe's brilliance was evident early, and so were his problems. His mother, a gay young heiress with a wild gene of genius in her own disposition, strongly overstimulated the boy, and his father, a sober Frankfurt lawyer, gave little shape to his education. At seven, Goethe was proficient in six languages: German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin. At 16 he had a serious nervous breakdown. In desperation he began to write -"to say what I suffer." Saved by art, he romantically vowed "to convert my entire life into a work...
...effect, is what The Knack is. It's theme is the old Grimm Brother favorite of feeling's triumph over unfeeling, innocence's defeat of evil. Would a rake like Tolen be likely to harbor a secret dread of unjust arrest for rape? Well, no, but we accept his breakdown because we are more interested in seeing that he gets his comcuppance than in justifying it psychologically. And surely our wishes rather than our reallife expectations are satisfied by the simultaneous flowering of the hero and deflowering of the heroine...
...particularly congested three-mile stretch, transmit pictures of cars to a 14-screen big-brother console near by. Technicians at the console can zoom in their lenses for closeup shots of any single suspicious vehicle; on several occasions they have watched on television while a smashup or a breakdown occurs. Then they call a policeman and throw switches that change speed-limit signs, block ramps, and turn on big red X signs over the lane that is blocked...
...attacking the Connecticut law against birth control that so long offended Protestants. The National Council of Churches, traditionally opposed to direct federal aid for parochial schools, accepted with only minor qualms this year's education act that provides for certain assistance to children who attend such schools. The breakdown of hostility has taken place on both sides of the fence: even those who oppose direct aid to church-related schools and colleges recognize the vital educational role they play; schools once fearful that federal aid meant federal control now realize that they cannot survive economically without some measure...