Word: emptier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marx Brothers once chopped up a train (in Go West) and fueled the engine with the kindling in order to keep going, Chekhov's pinched landowners would rather die than chop down their forests. They have champagne tastes-intellectually and spiritually-on vodka incomes. Their hearts are even emptier than their purses. The title character of Chekhov's first full-length play, a man in paralytic despair, candidly performs a self-autopsy: "I haven't the heart to believe in anything. I hope for nothing, care for no one. I only dread the thought of waking...
...Singers, having made J. S. Bach a belated bestseller by scat-singing him (Bach's Greatest Hits), have tried to do the same by Mozart (Sonata No. 15, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik). Unfortunately, young Mozart never was as cool a swinger as the Old Wig, and the babaladelahs sound emptier festooning his classical melodies...
German developers are scouting emptier Eldorados as far afield as Lebanon and Iran. However, some experts think the boom is already losing steam. One portent is that some of the most fashionable Germans are rediscovering West Germany. Areas such as the Black Forest and Bavaria, they report, are not only beautiful and easy to reach, but have one unique advantage over almost any other vacation spots in Europe: few Germans go there...
...broadcasts, but it is the now quiescent Imam whom the British worry about. He is the chief threat to the garrison post from which they watch over their Persian Gulf oil interests. Reassured, the British are now preparing to create a second federation in Aden's even emptier Eastern Protectorate, where the British-run Iraq Petroleum Co. hopes to find...