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...hollow, hollow as Japanese lanterns, hollow as tennis balls, hollow as black parachutes drifting through the night sky. We are money and beauty, expensive costumes, argyle sweaters and flannel knickers. We lust for the naked girl in the private railway car that streaks by on a summer night. We sniff at the air, spicing our senses with the scent of golden pine needles that drop like errant arrows to the forest floor...
...hollows of the Great America must be hollow...
...deepest sense, President Carter's campaign workers do not offer a contrast. In similarly hollow offices, only a courageous few continue the struggle, betraying the same self righteous air as their Republican counterparts. In similarly hollow offices, only a courageous few continue the struggle, betraying the same selfrighteous air as their Republican counterparts. In their hearts, they too know they are right. Ronald Reagan seems no fiercer an enemy than Ted Kennedy, whom Carter comfortably defeated here. A little jaded, Carter's workers take comfort in his recent upsurge in the national polls, and go through the motions, driven...
...twentieth century has shown us that a hollow and wholly perfunctory attachment to the procedures of humane government often defines authoritarian regimes. The pseudo-legalistic cant of their officials usually reveals nothing so much as a cynical, even barbaric disregard for the substance of a civilized legal system. Ambassador Barros' attempt to drape the mantle of due process over his regime has confirmed this dismaying truth...
...Iran conflict is complex and paradox-ridden even by Middle Eastern standards. The basic line-up?Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan versus Iran, Syria and Libya?cuts across almost every political, ideological and sectarian bond in the region and once again makes the old slogan of Arab unity ring hollow...