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...Denver Post thinks any group of Americans looks "silly" when demonstrating against racial inequality [April 24]. Imagine the outrage of certain Boston housewives when all that tea was dumped in the harbor! Senator Humphrey's remarks about the "inconvenience" to World's Fair visitors ring very hollow...
...flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head off, and shoot 31 minutes of rapids in a hollow...
Unlike the Oresteia of Aeschylus, in which Orestes heroically kills Clytemnestra to restore order, Orestes' matricide is set in a context where formal (although hollow) legality prevails. Orestes is at first sympathetic and wounded with guilt; in the course of the play his criminal nature is revealed. Euripides mocks the heroic ideal by showing Orestes' depravity and the depravity of those around...
...scorn rang a trifle hollow. Although he possesses a medical degree from the University of Dakar, Houphouet has been known to consult the omens of juju himself before making decisions, and even his name has a special juju meaning. In his native Baoule dialect, Houphouet means "pit of excrement"-a phrase intended to scare off devils...
What wonders of geological science are open to him who will behold "The Symmes theory of concentric spheres, demonstrating that the earth is hollow, habit-able within, and widely open about the poles" (Louisville, 1878) and C. Reed Teed's "The cellular cosmogony, or, The earth a concave sphere" (Chicago...