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...subjects and still be left in peace. Even with Leary and his colleague Richard Alpert hosting psilocybin parties in private homes, with state and national agencies investigating the legality of the drug tests, and with reports of at least one former subject hospitalized at McLean's with a nervous breakdown-- even then, Harvard didn't do much. The Crimson reported in the spring of 1962 that University officials had known about the research on hallucinogens for at least two years, but had not interfered "because to do so would be an invasion of academic freedom...
Jones says the real reasons for Herron's exile from New England go far beyond the party incident and stem from a breakdown in communication between team-leader Herron and Coach Chuck Fairbanks...
...SOME OF his sharpest analysis, Unger shows that the internal contradictions within liberalism lead to a breakdown of law and justice. If the Supreme Court is torn over conflicting interpretations of the Constitution, it is not because the document is poorly constructed, but because general theorems cannot be applied perfectly to specific cases...
...clergy and the Church are perfectly suited to the theme that runs through Power's stories. Powers's main concern is the lack of defined relationships in a world of change and ever-increasing technology and the Church's structured hierarchy is an ideal sphere for examining the breakdown of traditional relationships...
...capable of emotional fixity that makes the poems written just before her suicide in 1963 nearly unbearable: pictures of rage and despair drawn virtually in words of one syllable. Her novel The Bell Jar, while written in quasi-Salinger style, is a remorseless account of adolescent breakdown...