Word: facelessness
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...Jacobi does. Best known for the title role in the TV series I, Claudius, Jacobi makes his debut at Broadway's ANTA Theater a thumping virtuosic triumph. He is unfazed even by the giant Junglegym of a set. Toward the end of the play, Senya pleads with the faceless state: "Give us the right to whisper." This production usurps the right to drone...
...groups' relative performance and success on tests and in college and basing these statements only on group identity--Jewish, Black or female, for example--and ignoring any number of other relevant factors that together make each applicant an individual. These conclusions understandably insult students whom the report reduces to faceless members of arbitrarily isolated applicant groups...
...over Washington last week the foreign embassies were studying the election polls with the same intensity as Chicago's Mayor Jane Byrne. Those faceless analysts in the lower reaches of diplomacy manned the phones looking for clues about the next U.S. President. One Communist newsman hurried to the office of an American counterpart and traded electoral theories on Reagan and Carter for an hour, left a little vodka in appreciation, then undoubtedly dashed back to his embassy to file a report behind the Iron Curtain...
...must never allow Soviet Jews to become faceless and nameless statistics," Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, told a crowd of 200 yesterday at a Boston Common rally protesting the plight of Soviet Jews...
...prefer enlightenment to opulence and stability to success. In So Long!, Walt Whitman boasted, "This is no book,/ Who touches this touches a man." Who touches the book of American Dreams touches not one but a hundred men and women and, by implication, millions more. In an age of faceless polls, sociological tracts and psychobabble, politicians and historians would do well to discard ten pounds of printouts for every page of the author's impressive oral histories. The people, yes. Studs Terkel positively...