Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once through the Wall, Westerners were struck by the hollow silence of the Eastern sector. There was none of the bustle and traffic noise of the West, and even conversations among neighbors had a leaden, monotonous quality, with the nuances coming from the eyes. The only color was in the shops, stocked especially for the holiday season with eggs, wurst of all kinds, toys, cosmetics, porcelain and even-wonder of wonders-oranges. The Vopos seemed to be the major consumers of these tropical delicacies, and every snowy crossing point reeked with the tang of orange peel. But everyone knew that...
...play gains its overall effect less through representation or reality or any message than through pure theatre, much in the manner of Genet's The Blacks. Unfortunately, it lacks the impact of The Blacks. On reflecting, its caricatures contain a lot of truth, but watching them seems hollow...
...nation remembers long enough to force through a strong bill, it could forget in time to make the Negro's legal victory hollow and meaningless. Or John F. Kennedy may be able to secure in death a far greater victory for civil rights than he could have in life...
...adhere to its teachings." At the same time, the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, Jr., Bishop of Atlanta, declared that the trustees' actions "have forfeited the right of implied or official support for the Lovett School by the Episcopal Church." But to many, the bishop's words seemed hollow, since he had hardly exhausted opportunities for bringing pressure on the school. He presumably could ask St. Philip's dean to resign as head of the trustees, or even forbid the holding of Episcopal services at Lovett...
Either they had forgotten or been detained (which ought to strike even Julie as implausible) or they had been plain-lying, and then why would they lie? If she were lazy or frightened enough, she just might accept the first explanation, hollow as it would sound. She might avoid the real problem (why did they lie?) as lesser people than she avoid so much by not seeing the Negro. And she might avoid it indefinitely if whatever she were running from in the North were sufficiently terrible, end up lying blatantly to herself and only step up the volume...