Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly, death began stalking the nation's most creative leaders. Sudden ly, faceless men sought fame by mag-nicide, the killing of someone big. In April the murder of Martin Luther King ignited Negro riots in 125 cities that killed 46 people, injured 2,600, and required 55,000 troops to restore order. In June came the second Kennedy assassination, an unbelievable replay of the first, including a blind-chance killer, a meaningless motive, and national grief for a dramatic young leader cut down at the threshold of his powers...
...week, they will stand at the whirling hub of decision. Yet they are widely described as mere tools of the true decision makers. The great scholars of American politics have largely ignored them: neither Tocqueville nor Lord Bryce nor Sir Denis Brogan take them very seriously. Yet these seemingly faceless men and women are now at the focus of national attention...
...ones are piling up all around you. Did it ever occur to you that they might be killing the city by overcrowding? Do you try to judge buildings, wondering why some are good and others bad? Does one structure delight you and another depress you as just one more faceless façade, adding up to more monotony, more soul-destroying boredom? Architecture has always been the mirror image of a civilization, expressing its needs, its priorities, its aspirations. How do you like what you're getting? Do you react? Do you care...
...Reader T. Steven Lale [June 21] objected to the "bearded, psychedelic 'freak out' " on your cover, representing the class of '68 [June 7]. I have met many people like Reader Lale. And behind their defense of faceless conformity lies a paralyzing fear. Fear of change. Fear of humor. And fear of disturbing their comfortable, fuzzy thinking. I, too, deplore the self-indulgent hedonism and head-in-the-sand anarchy gaining ground among youth today. But an ostrich is an ostrich, whether a soft-brained young anarchist or a soft-living non-think suburbanite. These birds may look...
...cafes-lies a ring of small communities with names like Aubervilliers and St. Ouen, Boulogne-Billancourt and St. Denis. No soaring monuments to Western civilization grace their drab and grimy streets. Instead, the stigmata of the worst of the 20th century abound: the sprawl of brick factories, the grey, faceless slabs of low-income housing projects. All day big diesel trucks thunder up and down belching fumes, their oversize tires slapping the ancient cobblestones. This is the Red Belt of Paris, so called because most of its towns have Communist mayors. It is here that the Parisian worker lives...