Though the politicians who inveighed against moral and economic decline in the big cities have yet to weigh in on rural breakdown, plenty of voices are sounding alarms from this Other America.
He complains of their prolixity, their reliance on characters' suicides, their "leering tropism for the border dividing sex from violence," their tendency "to dash expository cold water on a character's fevered exclamations from narrative ambush," and their breakdown "in voice, pacing, proportion, energy of character, psychological credibility, and moral vision".
During a presentation to institutional investors this week in San Francisco, MCI WorldCom wcom Vice Chairman John Sidgmore showed a slide detailing the breakdown of what it costs the No. 2 long distance company to provide one minute of voice service.
Discussing tone of voice is surprisingly challenging.
India's strong voice on behalf of developing countries contributed to the breakdown of the last round, in Seattle in 1999.
No Arab delegate at the conference voiced support of a possible military strike.For Arab governments, the breakdown of the peace process and the confrontation with Iraq are different sides of the same coin.
(For a breakdown of the MDGs and post-2015 procesees, see previous Question of the Week and Emerging Voices posts).
Forty years ago, Julian Jaynes, a psychologist at Princeton, published a landmark book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind," in which he proposed a biological basis for the hearing of divine voices.
With last week's breakdown of the Doha round of global trade talks in Geneva, the rising economic powers are making their voices heard.
