Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become disparaging and intolerant of the Outsiders. And so Wolfe's Americans--both in his essays and his cartoons--make their assault on the Cult of their choice with a frightening determination, at once both grim and fierce. What it all amounts to is a grand nervous breakdown on a nationwide scale. It's to Tom Wolfe's credit, that he makes such madness attractive, if not downright respectable...
...greatest pressure appears to be on Crimson offense. "In the games in which we've had problems, a major factor has been a breakdown in scoring in the second half," Zuckerman explained...
...impetus which the caucus gained form this event indicates both its members' attachment to traditional process and the important administrative role which both caucuses were to play during the crisis. The overturning of the decision of a standing Faculty committee convinced the conservative group that they were facing "a breakdown of internal Faculty authority," acording to Doty...
...Suicide is recognizable, predictable, and preventable," he emphasized, noting that "some kind of social isolation, most often a disorganized home or a breakdown of family structure" was often found in the backgrounds of adolescents who attempted suicide...
More than anything else, the contemporary demoralization stems from a breakdown in the relationship of the individual to society. It is widely assumed that the condition applies only to hippies, college radicals, artists and intellectuals. But it may also be found in some degree throughout the population. On the one hand, men have never had more control than they have in this country today; on the other, we complain that we can't control our own fate...