Word: facelessness
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...Western soldiers, the Koreans through the year of war became human generalizations: the faceless, white-clad refugees-who all seemed to look alike- wading across paddyfields or trudging the railroad tracks; the old woman sprawled dead on a hillside; the little girl weeping in front of a ruined house. In a year during which the tide of war washed back & forth across their country, they had just gotten in the way of the soldiers. Yet, in a real .sense, it was for them, as well as for vital U.S. interests, that American soldiers had gone to fight in Korea...
What troubled the bishop about the crucifix was that it had no cross, but only a green bronze, faceless figure cast roughly in the shape of a cross. The sculptor, whose fame has not yet spread to the U.S., is a woman named Germaine Richier. She explained that "the cross has been taken with the suffering into the flesh, and its outlines can just be made out coming from the undersides of the arms. There is no face because God is the spirit and faceless...
...years past, the armies of ragged, hungry men had come from all over Mexico, up the highways and the railroads, on foot under the burning sun. Drawn by the hope of the Yankee dollar, they swarmed to the border by the tens of faceless thousands. They milled briefly amid slinking dogs and neon-lighted stench of Mexicali, and then streamed, furtively and endlessly across the border into California...
...conspicuous man. There are thousands like them; their names are unknown. Intense, spectacled, nondescript, they carry out the tedious testing of others' ideas, the intricate mechanical drudgery of the laboratory and the industrial plant. But last week Rosenberg, an electrical engineer, and Sobell, an electronics expert-two faceless men out of faceless thousands-were suddenly projected from anonymity into the hot glare of public scrutiny. They went on trial for a farflung, sustained conspiracy to steal the U.S.'s most vital military secrets during and after World War II and deliver them to Soviet Russia. Maximum penalty: death...
...thing about The Young May Moon is that Novelist Newby, like fellow English Novelists Henry Green and William Sansom, writes about his people with fraternal warmth and no condescension. Unlike those "proletarian" and naturalist novelists who are so shaken with mission that they make their workers or sharecroppers into faceless morons, Newby knows that a truck driver can be a man of sensitivity and a baker a man of imagination...