Word: crackup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think he cannot belong to the Christian religion without becoming the Principal Person? Kops goes barefoot about London, later is seen carrying a big wooden crucifix he has carved himself. It seems like a hopeless case. Kops, as he says himself, "cannot cope with the human race." Inevitably the crackup comes. First it is "greengage" (marijuana), then "the loony-bin" at Belmont...
...affecting desolation, though Choreographer Maurice Bejart's strained balletic invention at one point reduced them to peering dolefully through the symbolically barred backs of chairs. Returning to Jacob's Pillow, the company put on The Wedding Present, an emotionally charged dance drama with homosexual overtones, about the crackup of a marriage. A dance shocker, of a sort, was offered in a scene in which two males embrace and kiss...
...nine feet of track, two variable-speed controllers and two sturdy cars (Grand Prix racers). Strombecker markets models of famous racecourses, has a $29.95 model including a D-Jaguar, a Ferrari Testa Rosa, and a Chicane obstacle strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand-and a railroad crossing where a train can mash risk-takers...
Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella was driving at only 30 m.p.h. one winter evening in 1958, when his car skidded into a utility pole. Despite the moderate speed, Campy broke his bull neck in the crackup; he was paralyzed for life, from the chest down. Just one year later, Campy was driven into another accident. This time the car was going 40; the driver and two other passengers wound up in a hospital. But Campy was unhurt. Having learned the hard way that most traffic accidents happen at low speeds and close to home, the ex-ballplayer was wearing a seat...
When this ordeal by tension brought him close to crackup in 1957, Williams went to the late Moss Hart's psychoanalyst, Dr. Lawrence Kubie. Characteristically, Williams broke off the analysis when Dr. Kubie hit him where he lives, his work. Said Kubie: "You've written nothing but violent melodramas, which only succeed because of the violence of the time we live in." Williams' younger brother, Dakin, an amiable East St. Louis attorney and a convert to Roman Catholicism, drops broad hints in person and in print as to how Tennessee can achieve peace of soul. Says Tennessee...