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Kilbridge's efforts to oust Seferi may succeed, but it won't make much different. Without any project this year Seferi has all but ended the Service. The GSD's hollow commitment may continue, but it will support a Field Service more worthy of that kind of backing--a Field Service that exists only in name...
True to form, Nabokov has said that he likes his novels to end in infinite self-reflection. Appropriate metaphors would be two mirrors facing each other, or pictures within endless pictures, but also the "ultimate vision of a book...grown completely transparent and hollow." Art imitates and criticizes itself into a kind of reality where the whole gleams through at every point...
...high school there. He seemed safe and sound enough to local politicians to be selected as director of a new Economic Opportunity Commission project in 1965 The stated purpose of the program was to fight poverty in an isolated region of Appalachia, sprinkled with towns with names like Cinderella Hollow and Magnolia, but inhabited by people 50% of whom were officially classified as poor...
...Tokyo, where he was visiting (and decided to remain for the time being), Kim denounced Park's action. "His stated reason that the constitution requires revision is a hollow excuse," he said. "Nearly everyone in South Korea already supports reunification of the country...
...success, Turkey, may turn out to be discouragingly hollow. In return for $35 million in various subsidies, Turkey agreed to curb the cultivation of opium after the 1972 crop was harvested. The Administration felt that it had achieved a "breakthrough" because the 80 tons of illicit opium produced by Turkish farmers last year produced 80% of the heroin entering the U.S. market. But now there are worries that the curb may be ineffective, in view of the large supplies of opium that canny Turkish smugglers are rumored to have begun to stockpile long...