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...case, Operation Scorpio, plus the earlier arrests, was a triumph for Marcos as well as the greatest setback for the Communists since the breakdown of the old Huk guerrilla movement in the mid-1950s. The military announced that the big roundup would continue, its chief target now being the Communist Party's chairman and shrewd ideologue, José Maria Sison...
...brother tries to pull her back from the American and from what he fears is an incipient nervous breakdown. Yet he realizes that the old arguments will no longer work- and that the new ones are limp and equivocating. "If this were 1935," he muses, "and Sheila were my father's younger sister, the whole discussion would have been conducted in the context of sin. I can talk about it only in the context of illness...
...assurance, Yves Saint Laurent is a tortured soul, a self-avowed neurotic who is still recovering from an unhappy childhood and the trauma of his brief service in the French army (he spent two months in a solitary psychiatric cell). "Yves," says Berge, "was born with a nervous breakdown." Says Yves himself: "I am ridden by anxieties all the time...
...alcoholic, can only be convincing when the entire play is working. He is the most poorly developed character, the one we know the least about; he circles around the action making caustic comments without permitting anyone to know him. William Leach fills the bill competently although his final breakdown is incomprehensible to us, having been given no previous background about his character. Leach does not handle this weakness in Miller's script very well; and apparently he too failed to find the motivation for his character's collapse...
...still frighteningly wide, even within America. Americans of non-European descent are still having to struggle to achieve for themselves their full rights as American citizens, equal with all others. Extreme poverty, and even hunger, exist among a sizable minority of American people. There appears to be almost a breakdown of many of the public and communal services which are vital to civilized life and in respect of which we would expect America to be an example to the rest of struggling humanity...