Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nervous Breakdown. Between the intransigence of the Protestants and the bumbling of Britain's Labor government there was, however, little chance for moderates like Faulkner. The Protestants, who make up about two-thirds of Ulster's population, were angry at having been maneuvered by London into sharing power with the Catholic minority. They also feared that cooperation in Ulster would eventually lead to union with the predominantly Catholic Republic of Ireland-a political marriage that would instantly turn their majority into a minority...
...almost like a nervous breakdown," said David Bleakley, a moderate Protestant. "All the little symbols of Protestant order have been going one by one, all the divinely enduring things of ordinary life and their traditions." When Britain's new government failed to heed the signals of the breakdown and offer any kind of remedy, Protestant laborers, organized into an ad hoc group called the Ulster Workers Council, began walking off their jobs on May 14 as an act of defiance...
Summerlin attributes his actions to "complete mental exhaustion" that numbed his judgment. He blames this breakdown on what he felt to be a frenetic situation at S.K.I. At the time of the mouse-painting incident, Summerlin, who was the youngest full-fledged member of the institute, was engaged in 25 research projects and, on Memorial Hospital's dermatology service, carrying an enormous clinical load as well. In addition, he says, he was under pressure from Good to complete numerous grant applications and produce significant scientific findings. As a result, says Summerlin, he simply cracked. "My error," he insists...
...favor of his accomplished banjo--and his sons. One of them, who introduced the songs, has a pleasant Dylanesque drawl to his voice, and both of them can, as they say, play the flat flip out of a guitar. The audience got off most on the inevitable Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and on Friday they finally made the Revue come back twice to face those massed lights and hanging planters. The Scruggs had people moving...
...confronts him. Once Majors conquers his inappropriate Trotsky-like appearance and stops pounding his irritating drum, there ensues a battle which erases any doubt that Undershaft might not be "an infernal old rascal." As the single act draws to a close and Ellen Anderman unconvincingly projects Major Barbara's breakdown, the lingering image of the triumphant Undershaft provides a good conclusion for a play left...