Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mount's forte was pictorial storytelling. One of the best examples in the Met's show is The Breakdown, a jovial boys-in-the-back-room scene, which provoked an arch rebuke from the New York Mirror, a weekly, of June 13, 1835: "We might be disposed to wish that such superior talents and skill as are here displayed had been exercised on a subject of a higher grade in the social scale. . . ." Another characteristic Mount is Bargaining for a Horse, showing two farmers, standing near a sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged...
...Negotiations between Chungking and Yenan have arrived at a complete breakdown. Despite the earnest exhortations of American diplomacy, no basis for agreement was found possible and the two groups are now held irreconcilable...
...hell. Disillusioned with her parents and friends, she went to church twice a day, often knelt for hours at a stretch. At length she announced that she was going to become a Carmelite, an order of nuns which requires complete seclusion. Soon afterward, at 14, she had a nervous breakdown and was whisked off to Chesapeake Bay for six months of complete rest...
Alvin I. Reiff '47, directing the drive in Lowell House, announces that the Bell-boys sales have zoomed to $2500 in bonds and $300 in stamps in a last-week spurt. A breakdown of the sales shows that 85 percent of Lowell House has participated in the campaign...
...heroine (Merle Oberon), arriving in New Orleans after harrowing exposure in the lifeboat of a torpedoed ship, starts the picture quavering with a nervous breakdown, and soon involves herself in circumstances calculated to pass it on to her audience. She moves upstate, for a rest cure, to a quiet old sugar plantation, run by an uncle & aunt (John Qualen, Fay Bainter) whom she has never seen before. Also on hand are: a chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting...