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World War I changed all that. Hesse protested publicly against the Kaiser's policies, suffered an emotional breakdown, was cured by a pupil of Switzerland's Carl Jung, and in 1919 published Demian, the story of a young man's struggle for identity that electrified a generation looking for a way out of moral and political disaster...
...tablaos 'these days are more flimflam than flamenco. To meet the demand, moaned a flamenco impresario in Madrid last week, "anybody who can wiggle his feet or snap his fingers has set up a tablao-and is cleaning up. The result is the complete breakdown of authentic flamenco. They're all dancing the way they think the public wants it, and most of the time they don't know any more about flamenco than the per son out front." Then where to find the real thing...
Bundy justified American intervention in the Dominican Republic by nothing that in the last week of April there was "persuasive evidence of a breakdown of authority" which could have been exploited by Communists...
There was quite persuasive evidence-certainly persuasive to me-that the breakdown in authority which had led many on both sides to take cover had produced a situation in which there was a serious danger that the people who would take hold of power were the people who had stood it out and had shown readiness to take desperate forms of action-who were, in fact, Communists, It has been the policy of the United States for a long time-certainly since it became clear as to what had happened in Cuba-that the American must be ready...
...Only a breakdown could beat the Scotsman now: his nearest competitor, Parnelli Jones, was H min. behind. On the 136th lap, Clark ducked into the pits for the last time waved away a new set of goggles and a glass of water, roared out again in 24.7 sec. His orders were "Take it easy"-and Clark did, throttling back to 150 m.p.h., then 145. At the end, he was 5 mi. ahead...