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William Carlos Williams lived a half-mile from his birthplace in Rutherford, N.J. He found ample fascination for both his curiosities in life along the Passaic River-in his little town and in the ugly, faceless towns around it. He practiced medicine there for 40 years, a tough but generous doctor with a humanist's simple notion of his work: "I'm a pediatrician. I take care of babies and try to make them grow. I enjoy it. Nothing is more appropriate to a man than an interest in babies...
...recital halls, young musicians, faceless behind their cellos, remained nameless, too, with no reviews to account for their work. Even debuts at the Metropolitan Opera or at Carnegie Hall seemed curiously hollow events. Years from now, the performers may well expect cold, unbelieving glances when they explain the empty page in their scrapbooks by saying that there was a newspaper strike that all-important night...
Glory is a small town in West Virginia; Glory's voices are those of its citizens, living and dead. One by one they speak to the reader in eerie, faceless confrontation, telling their stories and the story of the novel's heroine, an embattled Public Health Service nurse named Marcy Cresap...
This is no invidious criticism. In referring to TIME'S omission, we express the normal desire of a labor paper to give an identity to the thousands of building tradesmen who helped make all this splendor possible. Perhaps these men will someday be forgotten like the faceless helots who built the awesome pyramids of Egypt, the beehive tomb at Mycenae, the Temple of Apollo at Baalbek, the Great Wall of China, those slaves of inscrutable tyrannies who toiled without recompense...
...Though they have made dramatic gains in by-elections during the past year, the Liberals have been dismissed as a party of protest that is still in search of its real identity. Damned by the Socialists as "traitors to the working class," its leaders were decried by Tories as "faceless peddlers of politics with a pretty little trinket for every taste...