Word: facelessness
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...Soviet columns. He was vastly enjoying the war when They-the anonymous, know-nothing They which is GHQ to every operational airman-shipped him back to Germany to patrol the North Sea. There Knoke learned that boredom is the first reality of war. He flew 100 patrols over grey, faceless ocean, with scarcely a sight of the British Blenheim bombers that were ranging the German coast. "We all live together as airmen, in a strange little world of our own, at the end of the runway...
...York, their precocious propensity for vandalism, gang "rumbles." narcotics, sex orgies and extortion make them an eternal menace in many a school. Even in quieter districts, the public-school child is still gulped up by the world's most enormous* -and in many ways its most faceless and impersonal-educational system. He becomes simply one by this autumn's figures, of 934,105 students. "At home," said one new boy. "I knew everybody. Down here nobody would even come to my funeral...
...suffering human again. In pain, in fear, in sorrow, he told a story the cops had already guessed. His name was Noble-Francis R. Noble-and he had lived with the woman for years. He loved her, he said. But they had been beaten by the huge and faceless city...
...good many ways it was a disappointment. Visually, most of Carmen came through flat and featureless. The second-act inn looked more like a cavern than a tavern, and in the long shots the singers were as faceless as blips on a radar screen. Moreover, there was trouble with the sound reproduction in some theaters. Reported Critic Claudia Cassidy in the Chicago Tribune: "What the sound equipment was up to, besides sandblasting, I'm not certain...
Perhaps Author Remarque has tried to write his story too soon. Most likely, the enormity of the crime he tries to dramatize has swamped him. His story of faceless victims and soulless destroyers occasionally enrages the mind; it seldom engages the heart...