Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing the humble part of the kuro-maku-the faceless stagehand of Japanese drama who bustles about, manipulating scenery behind a black curtain in a supposedly invisible state-Kishi, in recent years, has been a potent force in Japanese postwar politics, a skillful, hardworking, practical politician with a rare skill in threading his way between the excessive views of opposing factions at home and abroad. "We are opening windows to both sides, so to speak," Kishi has said of Japan's relations with East and West, " instead of keeping one side closed as before." A Japanese patriot...
...Industrial Revolution turned the peasantry into the proletariat, working the "dark Satanic mills," and Karl Marx predicted that eventually the middle class would be forced into the faceless proletariat, too. During the '305 it seemed to some that Marx had been right, and the myth of robber barons engaged in snatching bread from the mouths of the poor was in the back of many a muddled head. Now, it seems, there is a new and very different thing to worry about. The capitalist robber baron has turned out to be a love-starved aunt cramming cake into eager little...
...Year had many faces, but he was not faceless; he had many names, but he was not nameless. History would know him by the face, intense, relentless, desperate and determined, that he had worn on the evening of Oct. 23 in the streets of Budapest; history would know him by the name he had chosen for himself during his dauntless contest with Soviet tanks: the Hungarian Freedom Fighter...
Friend in Need. Robert Wagner Sr. and Morris Javits were faceless in the arriving masses of the 1880s. But, like millions of other groping, bewildered, lonely immigrants, they found a friend in the New York County Democratic organization: Tammany Hall. Whatever its sins-and they were many-Tammany provided a vital service to the U.S. It met the immigrants at the docks, helped them, fed them, found them jobs, guided them through the first terrifying years in their new world. Tammany asked only their vote-which they gladly gave...
...many of the rhythms were regurgitations of foregoing rhythms. Twice more the taped sounds interrupted the orchestra, each time became more drastic, until the effect was of actual terror, as machine-gun bursts alternated with animal wails, with monstrously loud cricket chirps, with the sounds of huge crowds of faceless people roaring. Eventually, a passage of simple dissonance sounded as sensual as Ravel...