Word: facelessness
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...moles for the Soviets. What distinguishes Forbes' book is his poignant linking of those defections to what he sees as his country's pervasive moral and material decay: "(He) wondered how anybody worth anything could continue to live in England. Every small town he drove through had the same faceless High Street: betting shops, uninviting pubs, takeaway Chinese restaurants, the pavements scarred with refuse spilling from plastic bags, as if the only growth industries left were those propagating ugliness and sloth. It seemed that the England he had once known had deliberately effaced itself...
...rich young men on Sunday afternoons. There may be a chill in the air of a domed stadium, but it derives from the air conditioning and it does not carry the scent of burning leaves. The grass may be greener indoors, but for that we have to thank some faceless chemical conglomerate, not Pops the groundkeeper. And television somehow seems to dehumanize the skills of the players; it turns them into the A-Team in helmets and pads. Only rarely does someone like William ("the Refrigerator") Perry break through the defense that technology has stacked against emotional involvement...
Those all too official envelopes containing fall semester grades will arrive within the next few days. As far as the registrar is concerned, it's business as usual. With typical senstivity, the faceless bureaucracy in Holyoke Center will ignore the effect of a shortened reading period on students' grades--not to mention how much they learn or their general quality of life...
...farm community, the kind of place where people know each other by name and trust each other by nature. "You can go downtown without a dime in your pocket, do your shopping and come back to pay later," says City Councilman J. Brent Madill. "It's not faceless like L.A." In any town, the brutal killing of a teenage girl leaves a deep mark, but in Hanford the wound remains, 24 years after the crime. And now the U.S. Supreme Court has rubbed the wound open again all these years later...
...what-ifs will make us remember. As they should. But through it all, we wonder: why is it that this accident that took seven lives will last in our memories, while the plane crashes and the earthquakes and the mudslides of the last year seem to blur together, faceless thousands of fatalities already forgotten...