Word: crackup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comes the crackup. One day some bravoes in the neighborhood make sport of Marina on the street in the traditional Mediterranean manner. Heartsick, she runs home and sinks into her young man's arms. As a matter of fact, her knees are so weak with love, or something, that she sinks almost to the floor. Naturally, the young man invites her into the same bushes her mother has been using. Unable to refuse, she moans: "I want...
Icecaps can be cozy. Last week Arctic Expert Robert Philippe, recuperating in Alexandria, Va. from an airplane crackup, told how the Army engineers make themselves comfortable in Greenland's icy interior. Instead of fighting polar blizzards on the surface of the icecap, they dodge them by burrowing into the ice, just as many Arctic animals find shelter under the snow...
...Shohei Ooka has written what critics in his native land think is their first well-written book about the war. The novel has sold 100,000 copies, and it is not hard to see why. In translation it has moments of obscurity, but it still conveys powerfully the gradual crackup of a war-shattered man who, in his last extremity, can relate himself neither to humanity...
...desert nation of 1,500,000 Bedouins and Palestine refugees, broke and adrift now that its imperial British creators have left. Last week, seeing his country beset from within and without, Jordan's young (21) King Hussein bravely grabbed power for himself to save his crumbling country from crackup...
...faded away into the thin air that produced her, but a weird new phenomenon is loose in the land; a teen-age craze for a boyish Hollywood actor named James Dean, who has been dead for eleven months. Barely a celebrity when he was killed in a sports-car crackup, Dean last week was haunting U.S. newsstands, which are plastered with four fast-selling magazines devoted wholly to him, e.g., Jimmy Dean Returns! ("Read his own words from the beyond!"). The actor is also a current "must" in every movie magazine, while three national magazines and two book publishers prepare...