Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from their rank in the royal household (just above St. James's Palace caretaker) and their pay ($232.80 a year), the most modest thing about Britain's poets laureate has been their state poetry. In the age of the Hollow Man, task-basket verse celebrating a monarch's birthday or the puberty of a prince sounds at best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged...
Susan Channing as Josie Mansfield is perhaps too sophisticated given Mayer's dialog, but in the third act she is genuinely moving, and always extremely beautiful. As Ned Stokes, Fisk's romantic rival and assassin, Kenneth Shapiro skillfully conveys youth and attractiveness, while remaining intrinsically hollow and middle-class. Mayer knows that Stoke's aspirations to Fiskdom are pathetic and inevitably doomed to failure, and Shapiro gets this across...
Never Before. The spinal cord is a cylinder of whitish-grey mush surrounded by a tough casing, running through the hollow centers of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs. Inside the cord are nerve cells and main nerve tracts like a telephone installer's spaghetti wire. Although smaller nerves in the extremities may regenerate after injury and partial restoration of function is possible if the cord is not completely severed, there is virtually no precedent of rejoining and restoring function to a completely severed spinal cord in man. Dr. Murray offered a simple explanation of previous failure and his apparent...
...showed up in Seattle for a G.O.P. fund-raising lunch, attended a party dinner in Portland that evening, rode horseback in the Veterans' Day Parade in Albany, Ore., the following day. Reagan, of course, still bills himself as a noncandidate, but his protestations of late have rung increasingly hollow...
...barges into the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade. James Shuman lacks the heartiness and the broad, bumbling arrogance that should make Boanerges funny. Without him to play against, the rest of the cabinet--Dale Gieringer, Roy Goldfinger, Brain McGunigle, and Prentice Claflin seems a bit hollow...