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Christians are trying to maintain between the City of the World and the City of God. "... it [integration] would be a hollow victory if it wrecked our school system or did harm to our children." Is not the fact that roughly 90% of the Christian missionaries of the world are being frustrated by our example of segregation in their attempts to bring the Gospel to the colored races a rather concrete defeat? Where does the balance lie between...
...possibility of a "hollow victory...
...Broadway play's pre-Broadway alterations can sometimes be basic. The latest example is Big Fish, Little Fish, by Hugh Wheeler, which opens on Broadway March 15 and stars Jason Robards Jr. as a middle-aged hollow man who, in the bright past before Act I, used to be a brilliant young professor at a girls' college. But an old accusation hangs over him: he had seduced a trustee's daughter, who, when jilted by him, committed suicide in his bathtub...
...Hallinan gives his church's explanation: "The Catholics are 1.3% of the population in our state. If the full federal power cannot carry this off, it's fatuous to think we can. I would take the risk on high moral principles, but it would be a hollow victory if it wrecked our school system or did harm to our children...
Also Flyspecks. The spy ring was handsomely equipped. A Chinese scroll discovered in Lonsdale's apartment had a secret catch revealing a hollow core. It contained $1,800 in cash. A can of paint at Houghton's place contained a plastic bag with $1,820 in cash. The brandy flask at the Krogers' contained iron oxide powder, which can be sprinkled on magnetic tape to make coded messages visible. Fly-speck-sized pieces of film found in Helen Kroger's purse were "microdots"-photographs of documents shrunk down by special equipment to minuscule size...