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...real"--but usually it all seems civilized and ceremonious and pleasant. One of the articles that helped turn me fully against the war, I realized this year, was about how the Vietnamese were our time's Meursaults: like the people Camus tried to described, they had a faceless, irrational and overpowering enemy, and though they were not classical heroes they attained nobility by fighting oppression. Every day, hundreds of Vietnamese were being killed, real Vietnamese, and the most effective way to make me understand this was to compare them to a character in a novel. Real life...
...musical. He has made dance a central theme as well as a supremely exhilarating act. The chorus line is his symbol of mass anonymity: It is also his symbol of teamwork, with the emphasis equally distributed between team and work. Bennett distills one more element. Behind the faceless mass, there is a face; behind the dazzling precision of the dance, there is a terrifying vulnerability, not the false step of a foot but the crippling fall of a psyche. In a chorus line each body is more or less equal in the eyes of the beholder, but each spirit...
Miriam is at least better off than Naomi in "Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary," whose sense of abandonment leads her to forsake her love for languages and turn to the field of psychiatry, where people are transformed into cases. At home in faceless hospital corridors, she prescribes electroshock therapy and hides her own hurt in stony silence...
...faced universal drawing card like Love Storyor The Graduate. Everything is Order--the cop on the watch, the way people file in to A,B,C and D. You might marvel at what Mailer would have called the "nursery school" architecture, and blink in awe at the number of faceless forms hunched over desks in the Science Library on Friday night, but everything is extraterrestially humming, scientific, in control. Especially it you're like me and never go in the Science complex except for an exam, there's nothing you can do about that huge pasted-together hangar ejecting doctors...
...Monday, Wednesday and Friday, instead of staying around the Square and eating lunch. I walk the mile house to see my mail. As each letter of rejection comes. In, I attach for to the master copy of my letter of inquiry and move to the appropriate, file. The faceless letters pile up and my own fact floats in the air before me, record my body temperature daily and keep pardon copies of my letters to friends...