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...poet of this century--passed his domestic life on automatic pilot, while his mind found refuge and flourished in the Waste Land. The play's Tom (Edward Herrmann) finds it "an enormous effort to be trivial" with people. He husbands his passion for the empty page. He is the hollow man, a prune and a prude with the secret sin of genius, which must not be dissipated in ordinary intercourse. This Olympian diffidence, Hastings suggests, was sufficient to make the young scholar from St. Louis a figure of fun to his English in-laws--and perhaps enough to drive...
...various stages of development around the world. In Tucson, scientists at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (N.O.A.O.) and the University of Arizona are working on still another novel optics scheme: four 295-in. mirrors placed on a common mount. Each mirror would be 2 ft. thick but largely hollow, shaped like a honeycomb. The four could either be used in tandem, creating the equivalent of a gigantic 590-in. mirror, or separately. Overseas, Japanese astronomers also have their eyes on Mauna Kea; they hope to build a 295-in. telescope on the volcano by the 1990s. The European Southern Observatory...
...industry has disinvented poverty or starvation. And one advanced invention threatens to turn the earth into a polar waste. Even if most people learn to adjust to machines or the new science without the loss of human feeling, that hardly seems the cure for the fearfulness or the hollow detachment of much of modern life...
...enjoyment. She wrote a relative: "He looks 1 splendid now I do him." Forster accepted such smothering care without open complaint. Indeed, he shared the feeling that he was an incompetent in worldly matters. During his 20s, he astonished a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow. Not even the publication of his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), could persuade some acquaintances that he had grown up at last. "His novel is really not good," lamented a friend of one of his aunts. "I very much hope he will turn to something else, though...
...author has little patience with the members of past and present administrations who, with a little study, would see their public stance on the defense for what it really is: political subterfuge, and a hollow avoidance of substantive discussion. "Because the currents calling criminal responsibility into question are so strong," writes Yale Law School Professor Abraham Goldstein, "those who look to criminal law to shore up weakened social supports see the insanity defense as a call to battle." The same kind of Administration thinking that hoped to tamper with the exclusionary rule has allowed the Justice Department to exploit...