Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper commented that it was probably the last mass protest the government would permit. It wrote: "The days when students could protest, secure in the faceless anonymity of a crowd are gone; he who protests now must stand single and alone, fanned by a cold wind of censure from a ruthless and intolerant government." The editorial concluded that "the choice between silence and protest has been made infinitely more difficult...
...Molders. Marilyn in those days looked like nothing much at all, a glass of milk with some lipstick near the rim. The fascination of this picture is to watch the changes-not as they came over her, but as they were effected upon her by all the faceless image molders who, in the end, made the Pygmalion of legend seem by comparison a mass of clumsy thumbs. Under close and improving direction, her famous walk developed from something crudely virginal into something profanely sophisticated. Some unknown Corot reduced the red of her lips from a massive smear to a spot...
Heartbreak at Home. Since 1950, when South Africa's Population Registration Act was passed to reinforce Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's "granite" apartheid policy, faceless inquisitors have been methodically dividing the entire population into neatly labeled groups: black, white, Asian and Colored. Designed to prevent racial "contamination" of the nation's 3,000,000 whites, the law gave the government power to list names, ancestry and accepted skin color of South Africa's 16 million citizens. In the process of compiling these human pedigrees, pigmentation commissars have reclassified thousands of dark-skinned Coloreds as blacks, thus...
...Faceless Voyagers, a parable about violence, tells of the damage that can be done to someone by a lunatic armed with a fistful of keys. The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown studies a Negro soldier going through basic training and treats him as a sort of super-minority-the classic fall guy, mocked and persecuted even by his fellow Negroes. Taub East takes up the theme of alienation and minorities in terms of an amateur rabbi-an enlisted man in occupied Japan-brooding about his kinship with the eta, the "unmentionable outcast class, persecuted in accord with antique...
...dreamer was three years old and he loved the gentleman Jesus. Then came his dream of the phallus-king. The dreamer wandered through a stone palace under the meadow, and there, behind a curtain heavy as earth, stood the king, his one good eye gleaming up from his faceless head. "That is the man-eater!" the dreamer's mother cried out to him in the dream-but did she mean the king or did she mean Jesus? From that night on, the dreamer could never find comfort in Jesus' name. The sound of it flooded him with...