Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acceptance of the annual total of traffic fatalities-"vehicular violence." Even patriotism comes under Wertham's rebuke. Monuments to the Unknown Soldier "do not fulfill our duty to the victims," but in fact feed the 20th century's growing disregard for the victim as a faceless statistic...
Ever since World War II, Yugoslavs have talked only in whispers about the dreaded UDBA (for Uprava Drzavne Bezbednosti), or State Security Directorate, a faceless army of 20,000 or so state snoopers who modeled themselves after the Soviet secret police. But after finding a listening device in his own bedroom, Marshal Tito two months ago called for sweeping reforms and fired the security chief, Vice President Aleksandar Rankovic, 56. As a result, UDBA has become fair game for exposes...
...riots "were indeed fomented by agitators," said the Attorney General, "agitators named disease and despair, joblessness and hopelessness, rat-infested housing and long-impacted cynicism." Further complicating the problem is the fact, said Katzenbach, that policemen lack the confidence of the poor because they are "the visible symbol of faceless, nameless frustrations...
...life with them." As a judge, Alexander has "seen at first hand the helplessness and bewilderment of the poor when faced with the legalities of our complex society." The poor need lawyers not only to stay out of jail, he said, but also to contend with landlords, bureaucrats and faceless welfare agencies. Forever trapped in a "debtor's spiral," said Alexander, the poor constantly face repossession because of a single missed payment, as well as wage attachments that often lead to their being fired. The poor, Alexander held, need more legal aid than any other class in the nation...
...wild cathedral evening, the rain unravelled tales To the disrobed faceless forms of no position... Majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sound As we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing...