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...king and court of Shakespeare's Elsinore, argues Author West, represent all governments, all men. Nobody has clean hands. Ophelia is usually presented on the stage as a convent-type sweetie who has a nervous breakdown; in fact she is just "a disreputable young woman," a docile pawn in her father's plot to match her with Eligible Bachelor Hamlet. "No line in the play suggests that she felt either passion or affection for him." Even the ghost of Hamlet's father is tainted, as Author West sees it: he is the voice of the past...
...even grander scale, he has accused Meyner of permitting "a complete breakdown at the state level in the law enforcement machinery," and has hinted darkly that the administration is covering up a "major garbage collection scandal" in Bergen County until the election is over...
Kirk Cites Breakdown...
Professor Kirk cited "the breakdown of self-determination when attempted in plural societies, such as Palestine and Kashmir. But Makarios replied that, "according to that principle, where there is no homogeneous population, colonial rule must prevail...
Failure at the Top. In the middle, between repairman and customer, are the manufacturers and big utilities, whose sales and reputations suffer with each new breakdown or complaint. Repairs is one of their major problems, and they are the ones who are working hardest to solve it. Says Judson Sayre, president of the Norge Division of Borg-Warner Corp., waving a letter from a Cleveland housewife: "Look at this stack of repair bills she enclosed. I don't blame that woman one bit. She's unhappy. I'd be unhappy too. It's a failure...