Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caldwell and Wife Virginia traveled 25,000 miles in airplanes and rented cars. Mrs. Caldwell's drawings are of high school yearbook caliber, and Caldwell's interviewees are a strangely faceless lot, given to some of the most doubtful quotes outside the fine print of a New Yorker filler. A folksy old lady called Aunt Martha, of Riverhead, Long Island, moans over "this creeping menace of real estate, these acres and acres of housing colonies, shopping centers, garish neon lights blazing all night long, and every other kind of desecration of beautiful Long Island." At nearly every stop...
...Mother Joan screams at the priest that she likes her demons; that she will not be made just like thousands of others, who pray to gods all together, who eat their beans every day. This is precisely the plea of Poland, afraid that it is being engulfed by the faceless hordes of the East. Poles frequently identify the mass nature of the Russian Orthodox Church with the mass nature of Soviet communism...
...work of art itself; it has integrity and takes the pulse of an era. Such a collection is that of Dr. Arthur Hahnloser, who lived in Winterthur, near Zurich, until his death in 1936. In his Villa Flora, a large and angular house behind an iron fence on a faceless street, he gathered one of the choicest private hoards of post-impressionist art in the world (see following pages...
...smaller roles have almost all been shortened considerably; few characters have time to make any impression on the stage. Instead they seem to melt into choruses behind Tamburlaine, enemies foretelling his downfall, counsellors feeding his ego. Once in a while a reader stands out from the faceless crowd--Dean Gitter as Cosroe and Phillip Hecksher as Techelles bring some life to their parts. A few of the 42 parts are also noticeably bad; Richard Backus races through the brief prologue at breakneck speed and Jeremiah Tower seems to feel that Mycetes must be made monotonous in order to show that...
...football champions these days. The Bears just laughed. Their ferocious defense held opponents to an average ten points in 14 games, clawed the champion Green Bay Packers so mercilessly that the Packers scored one touchdown, one field goal in two tries. Bored sportswriters still called the Bears "the faceless wonders." Yet old George Halas' team won eleven games, tied two and lost only...