Word: facelessness
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William Hyland calls himself a "faceless bureaucrat." But one of the few warm moments during Cyrus Vance's otherwise chilly visit to Moscow last March came when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev recognized Hyland, a senior staff member of the National Security Council, as the only familiar face on the other side of the negotiating table. Brezhnev and his comrades had been dealing with Hyland since 1969, and Hyland had been scrutinizing the Soviet leadership for 15 years before that. His career as a Kremlinologist has spanned six administrations and carried him to the upper echelons...
That is the litany--heard wherever we went...joined by countless and faceless voices, heard by us and by others, and always the refrain is the same...
...ivories, Gregg Rolie. The ornate pattern of notes that flow from Coster's moog on "Reach Up" enable him to separate his personal style from Carlos' domineering presence, a real rarity in this band's history. Until now, Santana has featured five accompanying musicians who have provided a virtually faceless backdrop to the lead guitarist...
...edition simply illustrated a central fact of journalistic life: front-page stories about dead Polish immigrants don't sell newspapers. The public wanted stories about its rich and famous heroes, not depressing death reports and unconfirmed rumors suggesting that the ship's crew might have kept a bunch of faceless illiterates with unpronounceable names below until just before the ship sank. So while the front page headlines trumpeted stories of Astor and his heroic pet airedale Kitty, the news about the steerage-class passengers surfaced inside underneath a box-score, and everyone was happy. An adventure-hungry public eagerly devoured...
...university uprooting them entirely, as though they were crabgrass which might contaminate the straight and true Harvard Man; they have seen the absurdity of this picture, and have tried reason, to no avail. The administration is continuing to destroy the remaining shreds of unity, to merge us into the faceless mask that produces the new standard Harvard-Radcliffe person. But if Harvard has its way, certainly these people, and probably the College, will be the poorer for it. Christopher M. Holt...