Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wave of disgust swept Germany, the Allies responded by a feeble gesture: they stationed an ambulance at Checkpoint Charlie in the U.S. sector to pick up any future wounded fugitive and take him not to freedom but back to East Berlin for treatment. Even this token move was proved hollow last week by a new burst of Communist bullets...
There is a slightly hollow ring to Governor Barnett's attempt to blame the Sunday night riots at the University of Mississippi on "inexperienced, nervous, and trigger-happy" Federal marshals. His pious requests for law and order have not undone the many years of demagoguery and defiance...
Last week little Mali established its sovereignty over 26 verdant acres of New York's Westchester County, near another historic spot of no economic significance: Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow. To create a home that was never like home for its U.N. staff, Mali paid $300,000 for two mansions overlooking the Hudson at Tarrytown: Linden Court, with 19 bedrooms and ten baths, and Uplands, which has only seven bedrooms and six baths. Both were sold by the Biddle clan...
...latest of these is Tom Courtenay, who plays the young delinquent hero in the film version of Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. He looks like malnutrition itself-hollow cheeks, hair too long, sallow skin that seems to harbinger a tic. He might well have been plucked off the streets by some director casting a social-protest story. He was raised, as a matter of fact, in the slums of Hull. But he was educated at the University of London, trained by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and apprenticed...
...full of perfectly stuffed birds of paradise, those rare and fabulous creatures about which it was once believed that because they were too beautiful for earth, they had no feet and so must fly steadily until the moment of their deaths. The birds-which, among other things, represent the hollow, doomed magnificence of British India-are the kind of florid symbol delighted in by artful writers but often ruinous to a novel; the reader is so taken with the symbolic whipped cream on top that he leaves the nourishing narrative jello beneath untasted. Skillfully, Author Scott mixes the two richly...