Word: breakdowns
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...startled by Moynihan's answer. The breakdown of the family? Really? If you follow the American trajectory from the election of John Kennedy in November 1960 to the last days of the Clinton administration, do you really conclude that the greatest change has been the breakdown of the family...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan answered: "The breakdown of the family...
What is the unifying principle? Most of the social changes began under the heading of the Breakdown of Authority - a vast subversion (liberating or disastrous, depending on your point of view) that started in the '60s, just after Moynihan came to Washington, and altered every American institution, from the presidency to the military, the universities, the churches, the family. A regenerative turbulence, lasting through the '70s, began with l?se-majest? as a way of life but laid the foundations of a society new and different - and in many ways better...
Nonetheless, the exhibit offers an explanation of van Gogh's breakdown after working with Gauguin in Arles for two months. Van Gogh, after a heated argument, mutilated his ear. Yet only one image of the artist without his ear appears in the exhibit - an important curatorial decision. Instead of focusing on van Gogh as 'the crazy artist who cut his ear off,' the exhibit moves on to the tragedy of what this fit implied for van Gogh - as the exhibit undersores, van Gogh is more than a mad genius...
...works by reducing protein breakdown and stimulating cell production. Studies in mice have shown that IGF-1 increased muscle strength up to 27%, and even at a cost of $3,000 a month, what athlete doesn't want to be Mighty Mouse? There's no test yet to detect...