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...former resident of Scarsdale and its "organized acquiescence," my hat is off to the young woman who turned down her debut to the "Hollow Ball." I remember many times the heartbreak of young people who were not accepted in other organizations of top importance-school-frowned-upon sororities and fraternities...
Inside-Out Edens. Out of such earthbound progenitors, thinks Cole, real macrolife can ultimately be developed, and once it has become established in space its units can grow to very large size. In time, too, new types will appear, such as enormous hollow ellipsoids that spin constantly so that their inhabitants can walk upright on their inside surfaces and feel a gentle gravity pulling them outward...
Chote is less than a simple climber. He is an empty man, one of nature's nihilists. For every serious matter he has a tweeded pose and a hollow, echoing gibe. He even sneaks into one or another of Oxford's numerous, empty churches, but nothing happens in the gothic twilight...
RABBIT, RUN, by John Updike. This talented, depressing book contains some of the best and some of the most shocking writing of the year. Its hollow, spineless central character leaves a trail of misery and tragedy in the wake of his weakness, a condition that, the author seems to imply, infects a great many average U.S. young men without the stamina to face the facts of life...
...water, drainage, and electricity will be supplied to each of the laboratories by alternating hollow U-shaped beams...