Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Firing Line. William F. Buckley hosts political analysts with guests Ben Wattenberg [The Real America] and Lenny Davis [The Emerging Democratic Majority] giving a breakdown of the Nov. 5 elections. Who knows why people vote the way they do? Ch. 2, 9:30 p.m. 1 hour...
Gary Bellow and Jeanne C. Kettleson are both on the faculty of the Law School. Bellow is professor of Law, and Kettleson is the school's director of administration for clinical programs. A Breakdown by Category Of Farmworkers' Wages Category of Farm Labor Number of Laborers Average Number of Days Worked/Year Annual Income Casual Worker less than 25 days/yr. 1.1 million 9 days $94.05 Non-Casual 1.7 million 141 days 1877.00 Seasonal 25-149 days/yr. 1.0 million 66 days 765.00 Regulars 150-249 days/yr. 0.3 million 198 days 2673.00 Year-Round 250+ days/yr. 0.4 million 306 days...
...sagged more than the Government or private forecasters have expected. Some economists are openly mulling over possibilities that even a short while ago were unthinkable. For example, just before Greenspan took office last month, his consulting firm, Townsend-Greenspan, warned clients that "although we do not expect a breakdown in the financial system near term, it cannot be ruled out as a possibility at some point in the future...
Died. Anne Sexton, 45, suburban housewife who turned to poetry during a nervous breakdown 18 years ago and proceeded to write seven books of searingly personal verse, including the Pulitzer-prizewinning Live or Die (1966); apparently by her own hand (carbon-monoxide inhalation); in Weston, Mass. Clearly intrigued in her poems by the thought of her own death, Sexton survived a number of suicide attempts. After the 1963 suicide of Fellow Poet Sylvia Plath, Sexton recalled discussions the two had had in the late 1950s: "We talked about death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawing to it like...
...prose is a lot like Kurt Vonnegut's, but it lacks the naivete that allows Vonnegut to laugh. Heller's somber style reflects the cautious narrator's inhibitions. Their eventual breakdown only after it has become too late remains in Slocum's eyes a sign of weakness. In the same way, the novel's structure evolves into a complex web out of an increasing sense of urgency. Slocum's failure to reach his children comes, he feels, not from his own virtual breakdown but from the breakdown in American values. Children, he feels, have a right to be pessimistic...