Word: hollowness
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...Tradition likewise demands respect for the past, that we only with the greatest care appraise its apparent mistakes. But at Harvard, where innovation is king and eyes are fixed on the future, such respect is lacking. No wonder that the Harvard-Yale patriotism appears so hollow and artificial...
...years ago, many would have shrugged their shoulders. A few might have remembered Brolin as the jock older brother in Richard Donner’s classic “The Goonies.” Others might have recalled his role in the less-classic “Hollow Man.”Brolin’s star turn in this week’s release “No Country for Old Men,” as well as his commanding performances in Ridley Scott’s “American Gangster” and Robert Rodriguez?...
...sound of hollow footsteps heightens the chill of the room in Memorial Church. A hooded female figure, carved in stone, mourns over a fallen soldier. In the stone walls, cool to the touch, 691 names of Harvard’s World War II dead form grooves that welcome grieving, searching fingers...
...hometown. Jones follows the trail of bodies just a step behind Bardem, hoping to protect Brolin from the unstoppable evil. Jones provides a psychological grounding point, a man who has seen more years of bloodshed than any should, and is powerless to do anything but crack hollow jokes in the face of the tide that threatens to swallow him. Like any McCarthy novel, in the battle between good and evil, evil always has a leg up. With a pressurized cattle gun used to punch out equal parts of deadbolts and human gray matter, Bardem’s brand of evil...
That will change only if politicians hear loud and clear that global warming matters to Americans, not just in the brand of light bulbs they buy, but where they cast their vote. The focus on individual solutions "rings hollow to a lot of people," says Jesse Jenkins, a member of the Cascade Climate Network and an environmental blogger. "The solution is to organize and organize and organize." And the agents of that change will be young people like Jenkins and Tolkan, the college-age members of the Millennial generation, born after 1980. These post Cold War kids have grown...