Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bate's Johnson is not without its faults. His overreliance on Freud can become tiresome, and he tends to belabor his evidence. But his commentaries on Johnson's mind are unfailingly ingenious. The severe breakdown Johnson suffered in his 50s, Bate argues, was provoked by "the habit of leaping ahead in imagination into the future and forestalling disappointment"; he had renounced hope, the one virtue he believed essential to life. This sort of intuitive speculation, intimate but never condescending, recalls Johnson's own method in Lives of the Poets. No other biographer of Johnson has meditated...
...bottom line was that the offensive line put it together for the first time since early last season. "When you looked at the films," Brown said, speaking of previous games, "you could see that there were individual breakdowns in the line, and one minor breakdown is enough to destroy the play. All we did against Dartmouth was eliminate our own mistakes...
...protection program was formally established after passage of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 to hasten the breakdown of omerta, the underworld code of silence. Relying on Title V, "Protected Facilities for Housing Government Witnesses," the Justice Department gave anti-Mob informers refuge in "safe houses" until their court testimony, then relocated them, perhaps after they had served prison time themselves...
...luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves. One evening in Sicily, he could look from his hotel balcony and "see the distant moth-soft dazzle of the temples'" at Agrigento. In a little Sicilian town called Chaos, the birthplace of Pirandello, Durrell watched sunlight "worthy of a nervous breakdown by Turner." When a local doctor was summoned to treat a tourist in Durrell's party, "he had a singular sort of expression, a sort of holy expression which one suddenly realised came from the fact that he was scared stiff in case someone asked him a question...
...remain deeply split on the mechanics of Geneva. Begin demands face-to-face Arab-Israeli talks without any preliminary negotiations. The Arabs want ample advance negotiations, with the U.S. acting in an honest broker role to iron out the tough issues ahead of time and thus avoid a calamitous breakdown. Vance largely agrees. Said he last week: "I myself believe the more that can be resolved [before Geneva], the better we will...