Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm boy from Possum Hollow, near Granville, Tenn., Gore worked his way through a state teachers college at Murfreesboro by teaching country school. Later, after taking courses offered by the Y.M.C.A., he got a law degree, decided to enter politics, campaigned with a fiddle that scraped out lively hillbilly tunes, and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1938, when he was 30. Gore earned a reputation among colleagues as a remarkably diligent worker-in his first year, during a House economy drive, he was the Democrat responsible for the defeat of a Roosevelt bill...
...would apply to any person who has received nation-wide news coverage; it presumes to know exactly how Wallace will act and what his precise effect on Harvard students will be. Such an assumption is not axiomatic. To see how Wallace behaves in Sanders Theatre, in contrast to his hollow harangues before Alabama schools, may give insight into a man who, whether we like it or not, represents an important political faction in this country...
Singing to Live. Hollow-cheeked and not quite five feet tall, Edith Piaf looked the part. She was born in wretchedness and squalor in a Paris working-class district, was abandoned by her mother, and lived in a brothel run by her grandmother. A childhood disease blinded her for four years, and at 16 she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, who died in infancy. Heartbroken, she began singing outside sidewalk cafés, lived on the coins tossed at her feet...
...watershed in European history. Presented by Anglo-American Constantine Fitz Gibbon, the war not only killed millions in the trenches, it destroyed the survivors. The demanding civic faith and exacting private moral code of the Victorians were the unlisted casualties. The survivors who carried on were Eliot's "hollow men, headpiece filled with straw...
...Holinshed, Hall and Grafton. The Observer's Kenneth Tynan observed that the production "managed to reanimate petrified forests of genealogy so that within half an hour one knows which cousin is on whose uncle's brother's side." Barton, whose past efforts range from the successful Hollow Crown of the past Broadway season to an abortive dramatization of Les Liaisons Dangereuses called The Art of Seduction, made no effort to emulate Shakespeare's unmatchable imagery. But his purely expository passages have a convincingly Shakespearean ring, as when he inserts these lines to emphasize the weakness...