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...writer describes her husband as a "typical Hahvud product." His blood is "True Blue and backed by plenty of Folding Green. His hollow legs are encased in gray flamed and his pink Brooks Brothers shirts match his political opinions...
...surgeon can feel sure he has cut the nerve bundles that join the thalamus (probably the seat of basic anxiety) to the frontal lobes of the cortex (where anxiety and pain are felt intellectually). Los Angeles' Dr. Tracy J. Putnam has devised a way of driving two hollow needles precisely into the chosen nerve bundles. These are then destroyed by seeds of radon (a radioactive gas) dropped down the needles...
...hero has a perfunctory fling with an old flame in the big brass bed in which he slept as a youngster: "And when at last he possessed her, in a wholeness of possession he had never known or dreamed, past and present came thundering together." But the thunder is hollow: not for a moment is even the most optimistic reader allowed to think that Lawyer Page will really stay in that Southern brass bed rather than return to his lawful innerspring up North...
...Yalta's broken promises was that postwar Poland would be a democracy with a popularly elected government. To keep up this hollow fiction, the Polish Communist Party insists that Poles vote for a preselected slate of Communist candidates. Last week, announcing the results of current elections, Radio Warsaw added a shocked comment: in some villages "less than one-half of those entitled to vote went to the polls," while in others "less than one-half the number of required councilors were elected." The Communist corrective: elections will be reheld and villagers forced to vote...
...moderns of many schools conceal all trace of academic tradition in their work, as if it were sissy. Last week Manhattan saw an exhibition of less fortunate primitives-men lacking art training and cut off from the art of the ages. It beat the self-made, big-city primitives hollow...