Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess created a wall-to-wall nightmare in which society dissolves into violence and repression. The condition is reflected in the breakdown of language into "nadsat," a jumble of portmanteau constructions ("He looked a malenky bit poogly when he viddied the four of us"). To Burgess, language is the breath of civilization. Cut it short and society suffocates. That is an insight worth pondering. For if the world is to resist the nadsat future, readers and writers of both sexes must resist onefully any meaningless neologisms. To do less is to encourage another manifestation of prejudice-against...
MONEYMEN have never been short of ideas for a new global financial system to replace the old one that creaked to a breakdown last year. But the world has been drifting toward division into hostile monetary blocs for lack of political leadership to start the hard job of building a flexible system that would better encourage international trade, investment and tourism. Last week that initiative finally came-happily from the U.S. The Nixon Administration is in a strong position to push bargaining along because America is at last shrinking its gigantic balance of payments deficit (see chart...
...Coop locations are showing increased sales and profits, he continued. Although he declined to give a profit breakdown by department. Davis said that textbook sales show no profit even though the volume is very high. "No college book store is making money on textbooks, because the mark-up is too low," he said...
...William Simon express it. American society is committed to sexuality, and even children's dolls have breasts and provocative outfits nowadays. Another frequently cited factor is the weakening of religious strictures on sex. Observes Social Critic Michael Harrington: "One of the great facts about our culture is the breakdown of organized religion and the disappearance of the inhibitions that religion once placed around sexual relationships." Sociologists have found an inverse relationship between churchgoing and sexual experimentation: the less of the former, the more of the latter. In fact, suggests Sociologist Ira Reiss, today's teen-agers may have more influence...
...just as the twelve-step credo of AA, which would turn off a normal social drinker, has real significance for the man who has faced the horrors of dipsomania, so the ritual of Recovery, Inc. is acceptable, perhaps necessary, for many who have gone through the hell of emotional breakdown...