Word: hollower
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village lacks intrinsic content. Hollow as an icon, its stereotyped forms have to be filled with one's personal evocations of the era. Otherwise the picture is left empty...
...surface, Glazer and Sowell seem to provide a much tougher challenge to affirmative action than the ax-to-grind arguments of the early 70's. But a closer look at their statistics, show that they are relatively hollow. For instance, if we are to believe Glazer's contention that the laissez-faire policy in practice was already benefitting all but a few educated blacks and women, then how do we explain that as late as 1968 in a supposedly liberal institution such as Harvard, there was not a single tenured black or woman professor on the Faculty of Arts...
...decided to become a playwright. "You can stand pain if you can write about it," he declared to a friend. The fledgling author became, says Bredsdorff, "a man of deep and apparently irreconcilable contrasts." Heinrich Heine, who observed Andersen in action, called the writer "a tall thin man with hollow sunken cheeks [whose] manner reveals the sort of fawning servility that princes like." All his adult life, Andersen oscillated between vanity and self-abnegation, pride and humility. He was a Christian who rejected the main dogmas of religion, a generous miser, a snob 'who championed the underdog. If contrast...
...maybe not. My longing is somehow hollow, ennervated. My niche is elsewhere...
...really, but certainly this particularly seamy side of an institution with a noble history and a more limited but certainly promising future. In the midst of many rather hollow "great men" on the faculty and an even larger number of greasy, grasping nonentities, Harvard still benefits from a perhaps undeservedly high percentage of serious, dedicated teachers and doers. An engrossing 45 minutes spent in conversation with one of the David Riesmans of this world is more than worth the price of many arid hours on the banks of the Charles. And then there are absolutely wrong-headed but scintillating scholars...