Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard to grumble that their blunt-spoken new boss is "very un-Japanese." But popular magazines revere him as a reincarnation of Taiko, a peasant-bred warrior who rose to the top samurai rank in the 16th century. To Western journalists in Tokyo, who are used to dealing with faceless and unfathomable bureaucrats, Tanaka is a godsend, the earthy Khrushchev of Japanese politics...
...meetings of the Board of Overseers. Harvard engineering professors moonlight with war contractors. The University doubles as one of Cambridge's biggest landlords while giving the cits payments in lieu of taxes that amount to only a fraction of what it should pay were it taxed equiably. The hithert faceless men of the Governing Boards, who exercise almost absolute power over the affairs of the University, turn out to be successful corporate executives and lawyers, hardly the types of individuals one can easily contemplate marvelling at the beauty of Virgil or composing a viola concerto...
STATISTICS, especially on a subject as intimate as sexuality, have a way of reducing humanity to faceless abstractions. In gathering material for this week's cover story on the sexual activities and attitudes of American teenagers, we concentrated on people rather than printouts. Our correspondents interviewed parents, school counselors and behaviorists, but the most fascinating stuff came, of course, from the scores of youngsters with whom our reporters talked...
Odious. About La Tour's life and character, very little is known. The man is faceless-the more so, because he left no known self-portrait; it is just possible that the quick-eyed, copper-haired young cheat at the right in The Cardsharp with the Ace of Diamonds may be La Tour himself. But his life is mostly conjecture, strung between a few documentary signposts. He was born in 1593, at Vic, a town in the duchy of Lorraine. At some time between 1610 and 1616, he is assumed to have gone to Italy and worked in Rome...
...massive wall in the rear, which opens to varying widths to allow the entrance of people or light. Place is indicated by a few pieces of furniture or props--notably a huge suspended silver eagle, symbol of Roman military; and a marvelous sculptured group of three draped and faceless figures, which adorns Brutus's garden...