Word: facelessness
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...duet, earnest Chet Huntley and wry David Brinkley). TV's journalists flit all over, like the technically muscle-flexing Wide, Wide World, or work in a simple star chamber, like Interviewer Mike Wallace. On too rare occasions, the newsmakers themselves step before the cameras: Kefauver dueling with a faceless Frank Costello, John McClellan patiently at work on Teamster Jimmy Hoffa and his voluble forgettery. Daily, the networks pour money, manpower, miles of cable and film into an often losing race to outdistance the spoken word...
...longer really new, that a generation now inhabits these same corners across whose face is engraved the indictment, Bland. However it happened, youth is no longer young. Rarely now do dormitories echo with deep belly laughs, or sincere cries of despair. Neither a laugh nor a cry; only the faceless, anonymous bunch who find comfort in their own mediocrity...
...Vacuum Oil Co. has recently set up a highly mechanized office in Harrison, N.Y., in which executives can dictate to 24 recording machines in a central transcription room, where expert typists quickly do the work. Yet mechanization is not the final answer. The girls find the work boring and faceless. And a machine can't go out on its lunch hour and buy a birthday present for the boss's wife...
Playing the humble part of the kuro-maku-the faceless stagehand of Japanese drama who bustles about, manipulating scenery behind a black curtain in a supposedly invisible state-Kishi, in recent years, has been a potent force in Japanese postwar politics, a skillful, hardworking, practical politician with a rare skill in threading his way between the excessive views of opposing factions at home and abroad. "We are opening windows to both sides, so to speak," Kishi has said of Japan's relations with East and West, " instead of keeping one side closed as before." A Japanese patriot...
...Industrial Revolution turned the peasantry into the proletariat, working the "dark Satanic mills," and Karl Marx predicted that eventually the middle class would be forced into the faceless proletariat, too. During the '305 it seemed to some that Marx had been right, and the myth of robber barons engaged in snatching bread from the mouths of the poor was in the back of many a muddled head. Now, it seems, there is a new and very different thing to worry about. The capitalist robber baron has turned out to be a love-starved aunt cramming cake into eager little...