Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nostalgic images of a group of old Edwardians seated on a bandstand in military uniforms playing brass marches in a simpler age of long summer afternoons. The Beatles may also know that the Edwardian age was one of violent idealistic movements, once described as "Britain's national nervous breakdown," and much closer our own age than most people realize...
Pity & Terror. Another Hollywood character, the late Spencer Tracy, once said that "Garland audiences don't just listen?they feel." They also fear?and in some cases hope?that they may be witnesses to a breakdown, which is one of the compelling attractions exerted by this durable but disaster-prone star. Her audiences arrive, it seems, achingly aware of Judy's tortured past: her teenage stardom and traumas, her voice crack-ups and innumerable busted contracts, her four broken marriages to increasingly younger men (she just broke off an engagement to a public relations man 16 years her junior...
...fingers and thumbs formed into a diamond signifies "bread." But in today's complex world, with Trappists operating farms and small industries, sign language is not enough. Says one Catholic prelate: "A few years ago we still used horses, but how is a monk supposed to explain a breakdown of his tractor to a mechanic in sign language...
Large Questions. The President made a dramatic move in a prime-time television address to the nation at midweek. Again he deplored the breakdown of law and order, warning rioters that "explanations may be offered, but nothing can excuse what they have done. The violence must be stopped: quickly, finally, and permanently." But he also pleaded for "an attack-mounted at every level-upon the conditions that breed despair and violence." There is no other way, he said, to achieve a "decent and orderly society...
...been dropped near Wuhan and that gunboats had moved up the Yangtze, readying an attack on the rebel city unless it surrenders. Peking recently forbade foreigners to read and report on wall posters, a ban that is scarcely enforceable. Chinese radio communications monitored in Tokyo indicated a spreading breakdown in transportation. Passenger service in the Yangtze between Shanghai and Wuhan has been discontinued, and China's only electrified rail line, connecting Shensi and Szechwan provinces, was reported out of order...