Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faceless Roar. The composition started with chimes, but chimes whose tone got an added kickoff from a xylophone tick and was sustained by the high squeal of clarinets. For the next 21 minutes nothing else was so recognizable. Instrumental sounds tumbled about in wild confusion; there was never a concerted attack or a distinguishable pulse. The percussionists made sense only because many of their rat-a-tats and grumblings came out as minute variations on themes. The winds, on the other hand, were so overpowering, so agonizingly taut, that the listener felt lucky to find a recurring chord to hang...
American Family, now decorating the new Police Facilities Building, brought from one city councilman an enraged blast ("A shameless, soulless, faceless, raceless monstrosity"), and from six taxpayers a suit for its removal...
...Faceless, Raceless." The sculpture welders have inevitably had to dodge their share of critical brickbats. When Britain's Reg Butler won a $12,670 prize for his Unknown Political Prisoner, a welded, cagelike construction that looked like a cross between a gibbet and a prison guard's lookout tower, an outraged refugee artist seized the first opportunity to pound it into scrap (TIME, March...
...hero as a young man is aimless and faceless, in love with an equally faceless, eminently boring girl, and finally driven to leave Pompey's Head for no convincing reason. The returning adult hero has a perfunctory fling with an old flame in the big brass bed in which he slept as a youngster: "And when at last he possessed her, in a wholeness of possession he had never known or dreamed, past and present came thundering together." But the thunder is hollow: not for a moment is even the most optimistic reader allowed to think that Lawyer Page...
...Faceless Radio...