Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian way, as TIME's Rome Bureau Chief James Bell explains, is based on unreconstructed individualism. Everyone fancies himself the tenor singing a solo at La Scala; nobody is willing to settle for serving as the relatively faceless member of a big choir. "There isn't a political leader in the country," one party boss candidly admits, "who will subordinate his party's desires to the good of the state." For that matter, there is probably not a political leader who would subordinate his own personal ambitions to the good of his party, either. The result: everybody...
That determined declaration by one of the nation's usually faceless financiers, Bank of America Chairman Louis B. Lundborg, may not rank historically with Martin Luther's challenge at the Diet of Worms: "Here I stand-I cannot do otherwise, God help me." It does indicate, however, that society is growing grimmer as it confronts youthful radicals and rioting students. The bank's $275,000 Isla Vista branch was burned to the ground last month during a rampage that began on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California. Bank officials fear that they may smell...
CONSUMER ACTION: Consumers could help themselves?and society?by complaining more about shoddy goods and slapdash service. When it comes to complaining, most Americans are really members of the Silent Majority. Ari Kiev, head of Cornell Medical College's social psychiatry program, figures that the atmosphere of the faceless society conditions customers to put up with inefficiency. Many Americans, he says, "have been trained from early on that nothing can be done. So much is made of rules and regulations, of the idea that 'you had better check it out first.' We become very dependent on others to give...
...play ends, we find that the magnetic bond of combat which has continually drawn Schlink and Garga together is a product of the loneliness which each human being feels in the midst of a faceless jungle like Chicago. They must fight because they cannot communicate as people on any other terms. Brecht is showing us that we have developed a social system which-like Chicagoseparates, rather than unites, every man. "Human skin grows thicker and thicker." Schlink says, because of this system. This skin keeps people from knowing each other. The only force that pierces this, outer layer...
...mass society because it is uniform. For all his concern about uniformity, Gerzon himself clings persistently to his own set of stereotype images. His stereotype youth with his stereotype youth culture condemns the stereotype adult with his stereotype mass society. One reads with apathy of this conflict between two faceless generations...