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...have a government of faceless, anonymous individuals, dictating irrational, unworkable and sometimes insane policies that no one is really responsible for. And a "loyal opposition" in Congress all for eager to rubber-stamp these policies, as long as they can sign their names to those bills that represent pork barrel to their constituents, and support the rest...anonymously. Perhaps the next step will be a government of total anonymity, for which voters will select nameless candidates--Brand A or Brand B--on the basis of unattributed empty slogans and hollow promises, and anonymous records of supporting shameful legislation. The identities...
...humorless, unobservant adult, abandoned by her husband, has enough problems holding a job while raising three kids. She is too busy and perhaps too mature to notice E.T., even when he is literally under her nose. And there are the cold, calculating adults, represented cloddishly by the nameless, faceless band of NASA men. They are not only aware that E.T. is in town, but also want to trap him and do God-knows-what to him for their own purposes...
Concurrently, economic pressure have encouraged young people around the nation to channel their career interests during years that were supposed to be reserved for "liberal arts" education. Harvard's ostensible answer to that squeeze produces only faceless programs like the Core Curriculum. On a personal travel, the University has done nothing to counteract student's increasing introspection, which manifests itself in cutthroat pre-professionalism and general political apathy of the past several years. By example, Harvard has encouraged selfishness...
...room. They were surprised to see that the gay table was not hidden in the corner but was prominently situated at the front of the dining hall. Upon seeing actual gay people, they were careful not to make any derogatory comments. It is much easier to deprecate a nameless, faceless entity than it is to attack individuals. If that individuals is close to you it becomes tougher still. Through this sort of exposure, attitudes toward gay people can be changed...
...these circles, there is perhaps less evil than ignorance, less design than accident. Doodling with the faceless technological passion of institute directors, people talk knowledgeably about "windows of vulnerability." "throw-weight," and of putting missiles on trains, an idea as absurd as mounting them in baby carriages. But as we, like Europe before 1914, lunch we know not where, absurdity becomes dangerous, and no longer only sad, as was Jakob's bitter luxury. Next time, no one will read of an old man's cold pleasures, of musing over weak tea about shattered, harmonies and faded memories, in ruins wrought...