Word: facelessness
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Thanks to TV, no war in history has become so commonplace, so visually familiar as the Viet Nam War. To the living-room audience, the war is green (jungle, helicopters, uniforms) and red (blood). It is endless patrols by faceless men up numberless hills. The enemy are small, expressionless men crouching on the ground with their elbows tied behind their backs or shrunken heaps of black rags lying motionless on the ground. It would seem that there is nothing more to learn from another look at the warnothing, that is, until a first-rate photographer puts together...
Indiana is a basically conservative state with two remarkably liberal Senators. Hartke's main advantage is his campaign technique which is tireless and personal. This year he faces an opponent whom he calls "a faceless rubber stamp for the Administration." But he may find that that is what the voters in the Hoosier State want...
...brilliance and self-sealing reserve, Martin is too chary with his insights and interpretations. But he offers a thousand facts never printed before, and he places West just right as an apocalyptic passerby-one of the first in his crowded century to sense the secret life of the faceless crowd and to chronicle its pain and baffled rage...
...legacy of suppression that began with the Soviet bombardment of Kronstadt led directly to the Stalinist terror and to the faceless, cynical technocracy that the Soviet Union is today. That alone, in retrospect, would make the attack on the fortress absurd. But the burning irony of Kronstadt is that, before the siege began, at a time when it might have been stopped or called off, the real perpetrators were nowhere to be found...
...love the skyscrapers of New York must be like kissing a rock. So unlike Pygmalion, the construction workers cannot even fall in love with their work- which is, in part, themselves- and therefore they must either hate themselves of try to become ever more like their creations- hard, faceless, and unfeeling...