Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stefan Kanfer's Essay exposed another bit of hard truth concerning the Watergate mess. All the beating around the bush in the Watergate hearings so perfectly symbolizes the unfortunate breakdown in communication that has been paralyzing the real function of our Government-representing the people by means of a general understanding of truth. I, like other proud Americans, have been disillusioned by this large scandal, but hope that the outcome of the hearings will only mean a great improvement in our Government's involvement with the American people...
...Harvard plan was rejected for the fourth time in June largely because it lacked a departmental breakdown of goals and timetables for the increased hiring of women and minority group members in the Faculty of Arts and Aciences...
Hulot, on the other hand, is just a pleasantly boring presence, a cipher who shows no feelings beyond a spaniel-like curiosity and momentary flutters of frustration that never approach the level of anxiety, let alone threaten him with breakdown. He and the people he encounters are scarcely less abstract than their settings, juiceless and lifeless. Going to a Tati movie for laughs is about as practical as going to an exhibition of Mondrian paintings with the same goal in mind, though the painter may actually excel the actor in terms of motion and emotion. · Richard Schickel
Problems involving the procedures of disbarment are really just technicalities when compared with the massive breakdown of standards demonstrated in the Watergate case. "What then went wrong?" A.B.A. President Robert Meserve asked an audience of lawyers in Hollywood, Fla. "Surely, it does not require a close reading of the code [to discover] that breaking and entering is wrong, that perjury is wrong, and that encouraging it is wrong." Part of the problem lies in the fact that on the one hand a lawyer as a counselor is expected to bring a detached and professional point of view to a case...
...major factor in the rejection of the University's affirmative action plan was the absence of a departmental breakdown of goals and timetables in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the hiring of women and minority group members...