Word: facelessness
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...because they allowed it to be corrupted by slavery. Some of Faulkner's most viciously satirical passages are directed against the sickly remnants-the gentlemen who drink morning toddies while the floors beneath them are visibly rotting away. At the same time, he desperately hates the hard-souled, faceless Snopeses, whose only purpose in life is to accumulate money. In the present-day South, Faulkner admires only such stiff-back Negroes as Lucas Beauchamp of Intruder in the Dust (TIME, Oct. 4, 1948), who endure humiliation with patience and dignity, and those poor whites who cling to their land...
...20th Century taxpayers, one of the world's least esthetic individuals is the faceless Moloch known to them only by his title, the Collector of Internal Revenue. But officials in the art-loving, 13th Century Italian republic of Siena were tax collectors of a different sort. When the camarlingo (chamberlain) completed his six months' term, he had his parchment records bound between two wooden panels, and commissioned some of the republic's most eminent artists to decorate the covers with tempera paintings. In Florence's Strozzina Gallery last week, some examples of such fancied-up account...
...result was a squat, dumpy ziggurat tapering toward the top and crowned with a concrete blockhouse containing elevator and air-conditioning equipment. High-minded architects referred to them scornfully as "wedding-cake modern." They were white and unadorned, faceless warrens comprised of layer upon layer of strip windows alternating with concrete, like stacked sandwiches. They looked appallingly alike...
Similarly, Frankenberg shows how Poet E. E, Cummings intends his wrenchings of language, typography and punctuation as devices to praise the individual "human" in man and to satirize his faceless "public" front; how the delicate verses of Poetess Marianne Moore pounce on details of sight and touch in a way prose seldom does ("the blades of the oars moving together like the feet of water-spiders...
...Spain's traditional All Souls' Day show. "I am too much of a Spaniard and a necrophile," he said cheerfully, "to miss this chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely my own as this...