Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutorial situation, as well, is discouraging. Understaffing and the pressure of lecture duties have led to a partial breakdown of the system. The result is, of course, that the Sociology concentrator is left with lecturing as the staple of his educational diet...
...traced from his birth to the last hunt in a country where fox hunting is life. This thread of unity is broken only by several brief and splendidly executed vignettes of South Carolina plantation life, cockfighting, whopper-telling, and a few poignant sequences depicting with brave objectivity the final breakdown of the old plantation system...
...quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been interrupted by the breakdown of her ivory Issota...
With regard to Advisers Harvard has tried to get something for nothing and has met with the usual experience of bargain counters. The lack of pay, or, what is equivalent, an alleviation of their normal duties, is the most important cause of the breakdown of the Freshman Advisers. Throughout the history of the system the position has been regarded as a burden to be discharged as perfunctorily as possible. The man who really takes his work in this field seriously and meets with any measure of success, of whom Walsh Hammond, and Graustein are the most conspicuous examples, deserves...
...artist who had painted Christina's portrait. Tony volunteered the information that he had been in love with her, asked her to be his mistress but she had refused. Brand felt momentarily better. Then in turn he visited: a less talented neurotic, on the verge of a nervous breakdown; his ex-chauffeur; a down-&-out book-reviewer. Three men on the list he failed to see. One, a religious maniac, had shot himself; another, a famed athlete, had disappeared; the third, an elderly artist who had painted Christina in the nude before her marriage, died before Brand could reach...