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Benton dates his rise from the Great Crash: "Because of the breakdown of our economic society in 1929 and the early 1930s, the effort to come out of the Depression occasioned a terrific concentration on America -what it meant, what it was composed of, why it was the way it was -by Americans. Frankly, Wood, Curry and I profited from this concentration." With a flash of his old fire, Benton adds: "I will say that in the 1930s, art had more public value than it does now. It belonged to the public. Today it's the property...
...This breakdown would have a negative effect upon creativity, he claimed...
Last week, four days after Georgie was scheduled to leave, the Russians at the Badger's Den distressedly called the police and asked them please to find George. He was "mentally weak," perhaps had suffered "a nervous breakdown," they said. All they knew was that the day before his planned departure, George had said he was going to do some last-minute shopping, and before their eyes, swung aboard a U.S. Security Forces...
...last June 30, said Kenneth Williamson of the Health Information Foundation,* the U.S. people paid out $10.2 billion for medical and dental services and goods (over and above the billions spent by federal, state and local governments), and only 15% of it was covered by insurance. The $10.2 billion breakdown...
Instead of blaming the adolescents themselves, or their parents* (who often wallow in feelings of guilt about failing their children), or even the communities in which they live, Dr. Flanagan blames a breakdown in communication. "Too often," he said, "Mom doesn't talk to Pop, or Pop doesn't talk to Mom, and neither talks to Junior." What should they talk about? For one thing, tension is a common ingredient in modern life, said Dr. Flanagan, so both parents and adolescents should talk about whatever is eating them. More specifically, youths in the limbo between childhood and adulthood...