Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hope Cooke. Everyone was invited to lunch, and 5,000 came. Outsiders were introduced to chang, a "barley beer that works something like an atomic reactor," reports Shepherd, and is drunk through long, hollow bamboo tubes. Sikkimese were equally awed by being introduced to martinis...
...Hollow Crown provides a right royal evening of dramatic readings by and about English royalty. Max Adrian is commanding and Dorothy Tutin lovely to look at. Engagement ends March...
...thinking might be broader than that. Bell writes in The End of Ideology, "But where the problems are, as Karl Popper put it, of 'piecemeal technology,' of the prosaic, yet necessary questions, of school costs, municipal services, the urban sprawl, and the like, bravura radicalism simply becomes a hollow shell." And Schlesinger in New Statesman writes "Apart from civil rights, the contribution of the utopian Left to the discussion of domestic issues has been unimpressive...
CROWDS AND POWER 495 pp.-Elios Canetti- Viking ($7.50 The gloomiest of modern thinkers have found the human being sex-ridden, despairing or just plain hollow. But Elias Canetti, 57, a Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright, goes further. In this massive, provocative and often brilliant work, he concludes that man is power-mad, and never more so than in a crowd...
Without the sense of identity, intimacy is felt to be a threat to the self, Smith stated. Unfortunately, many men and women who lack identity enter marriage, hoping to overcome "isolation and inner emptiness." What results is a "possessive, pseudo-intimacy," between what Smith called "hollow men and hollow women...