Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proved itself more attuned to the different and unfamiliar than did art. Perhaps in an unconscious response, artists (Capote, Mailer, et al.) became entertainers, and scientists took on the look of poets. There was poetry in outer space and in double helixes, whereas in poetry itself T.S. Eliot's Hollow Men of 1925 seemed merely to breed the self-absorption of Robert Lowell's Life Studies in 1959. Tragedy shriveled to the Death of a Salesman. Robert Conquest wrote a poem, For the 1956 Opposition of Mars, in which he exulted, "Pure joy of knowledge rides as high...
...incessant roar of the planes-that typical and terrible 20th Century sound, a voice of cold mechanized anger-filled every ear in the city. It reverberated in the bizarre stone ears of the hollow, broken houses; it throbbed in the weary ears of Berlin's people who were bitter, afraid, but far from broken; it echoed in the intently listening ear of history. The sound meant one thing: the West was standing its ground and fighting back...
...music room an altar had been hastily improvised on an old oak chest on which stood a gold cross and two yellow tapers. By it in a clean white surplice stood the Rev. R. Anderson Jardine awaiting the greatest moment in his life. Hollow-eyed, the Duke of Windsor stepped in a moment later, accompanied by his elegantly groomed best man, Major Edward Dudley ("Fruity") Metcalfe. While Organist Marcel Dupre played the march from Handel's Judas Maccabeus, entered (Bessie) Wallis Warfield (Spencer) (Simpson) on the arm of the faithful Herman Rogers. She wore a dress that most...
...lovingly recounted the steps leading to their acquisition, and their costs. Some of the rooms, most notably a child's den, were dark and half-furnished. By the time dinner was served, my feet ached, the sycophants had shifted into high gear and the evening had acquired a deafening hollow fine, leaving me with the impression that certain kinds of success make failure look downright edifying by contrast...
...claim is more than hollow rhetoric. If a black candidacy in the primaries motivates a large number of the South's more than 2 million unregistered blacks to get on the rolls, it could affect a close election. The Joint Center for Political Studies, a black think tank, estimates that the number of unregistered voting-age blacks in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Mississippi is greater than Reagan's total margin of victory...