Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry has disinvented poverty or starvation. And one advanced invention threatens to turn the earth into a polar waste. Even if most people learn to adjust to machines or the new science without the loss of human feeling, that hardly seems the cure for the fearfulness or the hollow detachment of much of modern life...
...enjoyment. She wrote a relative: "He looks 1 splendid now I do him." Forster accepted such smothering care without open complaint. Indeed, he shared the feeling that he was an incompetent in worldly matters. During his 20s, he astonished a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow. Not even the publication of his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), could persuade some acquaintances that he had grown up at last. "His novel is really not good," lamented a friend of one of his aunts. "I very much hope he will turn to something else, though...
...author has little patience with the members of past and present administrations who, with a little study, would see their public stance on the defense for what it really is: political subterfuge, and a hollow avoidance of substantive discussion. "Because the currents calling criminal responsibility into question are so strong," writes Yale Law School Professor Abraham Goldstein, "those who look to criminal law to shore up weakened social supports see the insanity defense as a call to battle." The same kind of Administration thinking that hoped to tamper with the exclusionary rule has allowed the Justice Department to exploit...
...every victory, there are seeds of defeat," Walter Mondale said in his concession speech. "In every defeat, there are seeds of victory," Amidst the grandeur of Ronald Reagan's stunning triumph, these words sounded a hollow clang...
Consider the irony today. Walter Mondale spent the first weeks of his fall campaign ridiculing Ronald Reagan as a Hollywood President-hollow fellow prancing around on a stage mouthing lines written by others and with only a vague idea of what was going on in the alley behind the theater. When television brought the two together, Mondale unabashedly climbed right up on the stage, put on makeup and devoted his energies to modulating his voice, making eye contact with the camera and using the right body language. His principal purpose was not to explain himself but to confuse, anger...