Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally, Burroughs' hollow humor draws a hollow belly laugh, as when one Nova Mobster, The Subliminal Kid, eggs on the civilized world toward a mind-shattering collapse by playing over and over (on loudspeakers that cannot be turned off) unrelated sound tapes of jack hammers, jukeboxes and cocktail-hour persiflage. But mostly the novel is a stream of unpunctuated non sequiturs, in which coherence seems inadvertent and in which Burroughs' scatological and pornographic effects no longer seem to shock...
...Aref's recent Nasser-style nationalization of imports and exports, as well as his growing dependence on Cairo and Moscow. In the northern mountains, the 1,500,000 Kurds once again are restive, suspecting that Aref's promise to provide Kurdish "national rights" is little more than hollow words...
...childhood were spoonfed the catechism answers as the be-all and end-all of religion and now occasionally, when the thought of religion occurs to us, wonder why we feel hollow and quite uncaring about the whole subject, are delighted with the era of the "good Pope John" and welcome with joy and enthusiasm his outspoken and good-humored disciple, Cardinal Gushing. The day of the tightly compartmented, oh so comfortably barricaded minds of the born-and-bred bead-sayers has passed. TERRY STORMS La Place...
...words of outrage, demands for justice, pleas for moderation, and abhorrence of violence seem terribly hollow and inadequate now. In the North, the bald fact of death for men who might have been friends, or sons, is evocative enough. In the South, the language is not the same; the paradoxical meanings of justice, law, and minority rights make our words impotent...
...they are to get to know each other, they must pretend that they do. They develop injokes between themselves, as a safer way to experiment with intimacy. And they find new words for feelings that are too embarrassing to call by their real names, or whose names are hollow: "Hell," says the girl near the end of the play, "I love everybody. You I like...