Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legacy of suppression that began with the Soviet bombardment of Kronstadt led directly to the Stalinist terror and to the faceless, cynical technocracy that the Soviet Union is today. That alone, in retrospect, would make the attack on the fortress absurd. But the burning irony of Kronstadt is that, before the siege began, at a time when it might have been stopped or called off, the real perpetrators were nowhere to be found...
...love the skyscrapers of New York must be like kissing a rock. So unlike Pygmalion, the construction workers cannot even fall in love with their work- which is, in part, themselves- and therefore they must either hate themselves of try to become ever more like their creations- hard, faceless, and unfeeling...
However wedded to that style of operation Nixon may be, it has already proved expensive for him. When he introduced his Cabinet members on television before taking office, they seemed to be faceless men stamped from the same die. That is no longer so. He declared at the time that each possessed "an extra dimension." Some of them have proved that they do, and not always in a fashion that is to Richard Nixon's liking...
Many Harvard students- us included- have tried to avoid confronting the Faculty as an enemy. Our enemy is Richard Nixon, and the faceless, brutal bureaucracy he heads. We have been increasingly appalled as the Faculty, out of some misplaced fear of political involvement, seems more and more concerned with thwarting students fighting the government than with joining in the fight. The Faculty's action- or rather lack of it- on Tuesday is the most discouraging sign yet. The proud Harvard Faculty seems determined that when the nation splits in two and machineguns chatter in the Yard a scholarly meeting across...
...think the other thing that's healthy is no white person today can be unaware of the existence of black people. I think we've been more, as a people, victims of being ignored than even being oppressed, that for the most part we were anonymous and invisible. Faceless. We were things, and object. People didn't even care enough to hate us. We just didn't count...