Word: facelessness
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...makes things seem quite straightforward by considering only the issues and not the people involved in them. Experience shown--fast--that no matter how sound the ideology, no matter how appropriate the policy, the implementation of it rests with the people who actually compose the institution. (Institutions are only faceless from a distance.) Neither directives from on high nor revolutionary takeovers can really effect change, especially in a system so complexly interrelated as the delivery of medical care. Both are arbitrary, and can, I suppose, deal with some relatively cut-and-dry issues of economics--but assigning all the money...
Kelman admitted that democratic socialists were collectivist, but said that "doesn't mean individuals should be submerged, or made into faceless masses...
...California convalescent hospital bathe their charges, she writes: "They might have been sisters doing dishes. Lift, scrub, rinse, dry, put away. Lift, scrub, rinse, dry, put away." But unlike many writers on the subject, Sharon Curtin, who is 33, refuses to lump all old people into a faceless category as a "problem" susceptible to some mass solution. She does feel that by ignoring individuality, the institutional machinery established to help them destroys their capacity for selfhelp, which might-properly reinforced by society-allow them to carry on much longer by themselves...
...committee had not campaigned hard enough for G.O.P. congressional candidates, he burned his last bridge. On departing, Dole took a final swipe at his tormentors. "They seem to make it difficult, make it hard on you," he remarked. "I don't know who 'they' is-the faceless, nameless, spineless ones who do it this...
...Lost Horizon. The word, that magic electricity in the film business, went out: somebody fresh and exciting had arrived. Soon it became time to cast the movie adaptation of Broadway's Forty Carats. What was needed was a deft comedienne who could also encompass the transformation from faceless widow to a sparkling "older woman" who carries on an affair with a 20-year-old boy. An Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps. Producer Mike Frankovich wanted Liv Ullmann-so much so that he was willing to have the part rewritten to suit her, lowering the matron's age and making...