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...true Irishman, Eugene O'Neill was a connoisseur of illusion and self-deceit. He knew they were not necessarily a poison, but often a nourishment, a kind of grace. The seediest dreams, tended like a campfire, served at least to make the emptier expanses of the soul more habitable. O'Neill explored the idea most thoroughly in The Iceman Cometh, which he wrote in 1939. Two years later, he stated it with a succinct force in Hughie, a one-act play that he planned as part of a series called "By Way of Obit...
...white jerseys, the fans' foul weather gear and the grass on the field. The situation became downright absurd when the gray metamorphisized, converting into rain, and gave 41,247 disgusted fans the excuse to depart they wanted. The Bowl, which had originally been little more than half full, grew emptier and emptier. By the final gun, the 70,000 blue seats were almost entirely bare...
Harvard Square's eateries were emptier than usual; its bars were fuller...
...consequence, scheduled lines began flying emptier and emptier planes. The average "load factor" on the North Atlantic fell from 53.2% in the first quarter of 1970 to 46.8% in the first quarter of 1971. The U.S. lines did less well than the average; Pan Am registered 38% and TWA 39.5%. True, the lines usually have slim tourist business during the early and late months of the year and raise their averages by packing them in during the summer rush. The biggest winners on the North Atlantic are two lines that cater to the ethnic trade: Israel...
...empty room is emptier than yours, said the masked man as he rode off into the night. And you knew he was right, so you hitched a ride on the Penn-Central, so you hitched your wagon to a star, so you hitched up your jeans and waited for godot. Empty rooms are relative, so you slid up and down the legs of the glass table looking for the cake that said Eat Me and waited for your prince to come. So you scribbled your initials in the dust beneath the table, so you scribbled his initials in the steamiest...