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...gloom which seems out of place. His wife, while sympathetic and a true believer, is almost as weak as he, and far less intelligent Patricia is too much of a vegetable to elicit more than viscereal pity. Thus watching these characters interact is disturbing, but the film remains fundamentally hollow on the emotional level...
Most who visited the quasi-underground memorial last week had simpler, visceral reactions. Said former Marine David Zien of Medford, Wis.: "My chest was hollow, and I was a bit limp. It just overwhelms you." Friends and kin looked for names, aided by roving guides carrying alphabetized directories. Minera Peyton said she had come from Elsah, Ill. to "honor my son," dead for twelve years She visited National Cathedral on Friday at 3 a.m. to hear William Peyton's name and she liked the severe granite memorial. "It's not ostentatious," she said. Nearly everyone ran their hands...
...more than a half-century, Soviet officials have claimed that their economic system is superior to Western capitalism and, as Nikita Khrushchev once said, would some day "bury" it. Such boasts sound particularly hollow today. Perhaps the greatest challenge that the new Soviet leadership faces is finding a way to haul the Communist economies out of their stagnation...
...Volunteer State seems more interested in the economy than in foreign policy questions, and Beard's own campaign practices, including his sluggishness in disclosing federal campaign financing information, make his charges right hollow. The Republican says he expects today to bring him victory in "the biggest upset in the history of Tennessee politics." More likely, it will bring a massive repudiation of his New Right Negativism...
...hollow tradition of student leadership makes ascents like Smith's unremarkable. The most comic example of the rapid creation of a student leader occurred last spring, when a sophomore collected about 100 signatures at a couple of meals from students objecting to the campus-wide referendum on the constitution, saying it was poorly publicized and potentially misleading. This one-man, several-hour crusade vaulted the fellow behind closed doors before the Faculty Council, where he was asked to argue for the Faculty's disapproval of the referendum results on behalf of disgruntled students...