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...fifties, having some time to think, and making a decision. The tragedy of Appalachia--which Vecsey seems to ignore--is that Dan Sizemore made the decision alone. "Nobody brainwashed him; nobody forced him into it. Certainly peer pressure had nothing to do with it." So up in his hollow Dan Sizemore read books, decided he was against the profit system, and prepared to keep his belt on when his kids began to sprout their locks. Fifteen years later the neighbors still hate the guy, and especially when they see out-of-state license plates (the people who bring him Philip...
...woman-baiting and good-timing are meant to seem hollow, pitiful. They are less than that. "You don't have a brain in your head," the owner's daughter yells at him, information that startles only Dillon. Since much of the distaff population of Delisle finds Dillon irresistible, it is tempting to deduce from Paperback Hero the message that the Canadian woods are full of masochists...
...origins and ritual meanings of the pi disks and the objects called ts'ung, hollow cylinders encased in square tubes, remain recondite enigmas, even to scholars. Pi disks are often mentioned as symbols of Heaven and as proper offerings to the mountains and the rivers. Staring at these primeval shapes and the infinitely various shades and mixtures of colors--pure glossy black tinged with red and gold, pinks mottled by swirling streams of yellow, bolts of orange running through beige and brown--it is not difficult to see them as symbols of a world without form filled only with...
...remains oblivious to the fact that the distinction between the educated elite and the uneducated masses is an arbitrary one which the social movements of the '60s that affected language sought to eradicate. Social change will invariably take its toll on language; judgement on the way people speak is hollow without reference to the society in which they live...
...revolutionaries in the struggle for liberation. The old guide began, "Sure, the Yankee imperialists played a major part in aiding the counter-revolutionary Cubans against us. The U.S. supplied arms and the C.I.A. also did its share of subversion." The guide showed us a photo display of a hollow shell stamped with a U.S. insignia...