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Unhappy Day (Homer and Jethro; Victor). The inevitable riposte to that vulnerable hit, Oh Happy Day. In hollow tones, and with the accompaniment of tuba and guitar, the singer spells out his misery...
...President Rudolph Halley saw a fat political opportunity: New York straphangers are presumed to be exceedingly touchy about their 10? fare. A seasoned TV performer (Kefauver committee counsel), Halley went on TV with a plan of his own: reject the Dewey plan, balance the budget by strict economy-a hollow plan with which Politician Impellitteri had toyed. Impellitteri, without any plan of his own beyond a determination not to bring up the subject of the subway fare, denounced the scheme as "Halley's folly...
...hiding?). Then entire populations, including stiff-jointed ancients and bare-bottomed small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into the countryside, laughing and joking and singing creole chants to the accompaniment of throbbing tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first come upon a neighboring band's Judas, so much the better-they whack it up with glee. By noon Haiti is strewn with dismembered dummies, bleeding...
...Your set of convictions rings with soundness and clarity, unlike much of the hollow thumping which comes out of the heads of many empty-headed journalists...
There was a church called Community Church, and it was John Hancock's kind of institution. It recognized that religion was hollow without social principles, and it liked to sponsor men with ideas about society--all kinds of ideas, from conservative to radical. A few of the men had lent their ideas to groups some congressional committees had said were "subversive." But, like John Hancock, the Church was not afraid of freedom of speech. Its members liked the chance to make up its own minds. The Community Church won a respected place among Boston's institutions...