Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here the President asked for and received "affirmative action." Overlooking this, many Senators have exaggerated the import of SR 85. Mr. Mansfield called the resolution "one of all-Senate concern which goes to the nature of the constitutional responsibilities of this body." intimating that only a breakdown in the Constitution could allow Vietnam to occur. In fact, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution fulfilled all the constitutional niceties. By expressing the sense of Congress, it eliminated the need for a declaration of war. At any time then or later, the Senate could have chosen to pit its will against the President...
What makes the case of the Chicago Seven special is the breakdown of discipline in a court of law, a problem unparalleled even in celebrated trials of this century that carried strong political overtones-Sacco and Vanzetti, Alger Hiss, the eleven Communist leaders in the 1949 Dennis case. Undoubtedly a greater share of the blame for the breakdown rests on the defendants than on the judge. Still, Boston Attorney Herbert Ehrmann, who defended Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the 1920s, says of the Chicago trials: "The conduct of the judge and the actions of the defendants were all disgraceful...
...City Council will begin hearings on the budget in about two weeks, after it receives a detailed breakdown from the manager. The Council can delete items from the budget prepared by the manager, but it cannot add any new items...
...more offensive than the crassest products from either Hollywood studios or the underground. The screenplay is the work of Terry Southern (again), who also acted as a coproducer, Scenarist Dennis McGuire and Director Aram Avakian. The three have taken John Earth's trim, controlled novel about a nervous breakdown in the groves of academe and reduced it to a madman's drool...
Oppressed by such signs of avarice, Baako's mind cracks in a long, brilliant scene that is at once frantic and languid. Armah unwinds the entire story slowly, circling the fragments of Baako's breakdown with the sureness of an African tribal dance that seems always on the edge of monotony, yet is continually closing on the climax. For Baako, too, there is a circling. First he approaches nearer and nearer to a knowledge of what lies at his center of being. Then he is literally and figuratively encircled by others like a mad dog. In an Ibsenian...