Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets who are to blame. Parents still have fights with their children, only now the argument over whether Dad has pulled strings to get his daughter into a dance company has nasty overtones of political collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks in an underheated school auditorium; a family bickering over dinner about the squatters camping out on their farmland...
...tunnels run from Cambridge Electric Light Company on Western Avenue through the College to the Law School's Langdell Hall. One branch travels through the Weeks footbridge to the Business School. The poorly lit corridor passes through the hollow interior of the bridge and is sealed off from the main passageways by locked doors...
...against Harvard, nearly ran out of gas in the last stages of the game. With a minute left in the contest, Huskie spectators were on their feet, chanting and cheering. The sounds of "Sieve, sieve" which the Harvard band howled at N.U. goalie Bruce Racine seemed hollow...
Some Wall Street investors contend that Ford may be turning into more of a marketing and importing company than a manufacturer. The experts fear that Ford, by subcontracting so much of its work, could conceivably become a hollow firm lacking the skills to build a car from start to finish. Ford imports its luxury Merkur from West Germany and intends to bring in other autos from Mexico, Australia, Brazil and Taiwan. Next year Ford plans to begin importing a minicar called the Festiva, which will be manufactured by Kia, the automaker's South Korean partner. Ford just missed winning another...
What remains, then, is what Political Philosopher Michael Walzer calls "failed totalitarianism": dead, bureaucratic rule marked by exhaustion and resignation, a hollow ideology, conformity without belief. A shell of the totalitarian idea. Does this mean, then, that the famous distinction between this system and traditional authoritarianism (e.g., nonideological dictatorship like that of Somoza or Marcos) disappears? No, because one crucial difference remains: only one system continues to aspire to totality, to colonizing every nook and cranny of social life...