Word: facelessness
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Many thought it might get dropped on us, or that we'd have to drop one of the damned things on somebody else-and you know who-pretty soon. But if the atom bomb was admittedly a terrible thing, so were faceless men from outer space, microbes of all sizes and the possibility that the earth might hit a star, and they had all been in the American Weekly years ago. Whether you got killed by an atom bomb, an automobile, poison gas, poison whiskey, a blockbuster or a spear, you were dead and probably didn't know...
...smell of burning leaves in the air, the chatter of starlings, gulls circling over the city. "Only the people scurrying along the streets looked dead and gray and driven. They were warmly dressed, they looked well fed, but still as they passed by they looked helpless and fragile and faceless as dry leaves, blown along the gutter by a gust of wind. It's tough on people to live in a time of too many changes, I was thinking...
...collages (pictures put together with the help of colored papers, scissors, and a pastepot as well as paintpots). What they were pictures of, very few knew or cared; they were enjoyable. Most of the collages contained figures that were something like clothespins, something like praying mantises, something like attenuated, faceless women in a contrived geometric chaos...
...book of 1941 told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps through his cell wall to ask why his neighbor, a Tsarist officer, has first refused, then sent him cigarets. The nameless, faceless, voiceless Tsarist, the type of the repudiated man, taps back his reason to the totalitarian who once thought he was the hope of the world: "Decency-something your kind will never understand...
...PATRIOTIC MURDERS - Agatha Christie - Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac...