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...Hollow Pledge. Yale's Robert Triffin, a leading monetary expert and a member of TIME'S board of economists, says that the Europeans have decided to challenge the dollar's dominance because "the present system makes them dollar satellites." Under IMF rules, foreign central banks have no practical alternative but to support the value of the dollar by absorbing any surplus dollars that are offered in their own market places...
...hard way. But Wills believes that this smugness is really a cover for an inner self contempt. The self made man, he says, are really "cramped full of pretense, diminished things- Dick Nixons." Men who have lived the Horatio Alger myth and found that they are just as hollow as they were before...
Piper sit thee down and write in a book that all may read-So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed. And I made a rural pen And I stain'd the water clear And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear...
Unequal Time. Amongst mannerisms and quirks, Nicholson rides uneasily. As he plays him, Robert is a hollow man who can grab but not touch; in his joyless sex scenes and sudden tantrums, the failed prodigy is pathetically credible. But his attempts at humor make him look a bit like a third Smothers brother, and Nicholson's now familiar laconic manner and smile often appear to be a handy substitute for acting...
...Nixon will enjoy all of the obvious campaign advantages of an incumbent. But, say the authors, "his popularity seems somewhat hollow, a popularity that is extremely vulnerable to a bad turn of events. If the Democratic candidate in 1972 is a man of the center, he may do very well in a personality versus personality contest...