Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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...
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...