Word: hollowing
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This week, after more than 40 days of fasting, Evangelist Ivie, still hoping for a sign from God, prayed weakly in his bedroom. Hollow-cheeked (he has lost about 30 Ibs.), he gave his family strict orders that no doctor is to be called, even if he loses consciousness. "If the Lord wants me to die," he said, "I'm ready...
...Captive. Roger decided on action. He called his two beagles, Midge and Queen, and his black & tan mongrel, Nipper, and headed for a hollow beech tree in the woods a mile and a half away. Stationing his dogs near a hole at the base of the trunk in case he scared out any raccoons, he went up the 40-ft. bole like a monkey...
...tree was hollow from top to bottom. For a while, Roger dropped sticks down inside it. No coons came out. Finally-although the opening at the top was only 18 inches across-the boy squeezed himself down inside the tree, bracing his feet against a rotten projection. He hoped to look for coons in a hollow limb part way down. But his foothold broke. Roger slid down 20 feet, stuck momentarily and began sliding again. Skinned, startled and breathless, he landed at the bottom...
Modern U.S. educators are always trying to define the "aims" of education. But to a swelling chorus of critics, the definitions have a hollow sound. Last week, in an eloquent little book called Faith and Education (Abingdon-Cokesbury, $2), one of Manhattan's leading Protestant clergymen told why. The Rev. George A. Buttrick. longtime (25 years) pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes that modern education is nothing more than one gigantic evasion...
...themselves where they are. Impressed with the organized fun of a Hammonasset Day, imbued with the planned debauchery of a Winter Carnival they have destroyed Harvard men's "splendid isolation." With their colleagues of the water pistols and ink-squirters they have made the ideal of gentlemanly living a hollow mockery...