Word: facelessness
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...Schwirkmann ferreted out a covey of bugs in the West German embassy. He also designed the mission's bugproof "tank," a compartment big enough for a handful of embassy officials to sit down in and discuss business without fear of Soviet prying. Most infuriating of all to his faceless opponents, Schwirkmann devised a technique for discouraging would-be wiretappers with a smart electric shock...
WHEN they choose cover subjects, TIME'S editors often face a problem that might be called the faceless phenomenon. In a complex civilization, where so much is done by committees and teams, there are many important events and trends that are not readily reportable in terms of one individual. Thus it is sometimes best to use symbolic or group covers. But this problem almost never occurs in moments of world tension. Crisis has a face, and trouble finds...
Orpheus had apparently looked backward. Kupka's reputation became that of a faceless pioneer, and he seemed not to care. Shortly before his death seven years ago, Kupka received a visit from the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr Jr., who bought a batch of gouaches. "You have to thank her," said Kupka, pointing to his wife. "Without her, all of this would have been burned." Barr turned to Madame Kupka and kissed...
...hard-pressed to explain the Washingtonian's meekness in the face of the most faceless manifestation of our legal system. One possible explanation is that, in the nation's capital, respect for legality is natural...
Caldwell and Wife Virginia traveled 25,000 miles in airplanes and rented cars. Mrs. Caldwell's drawings are of high school yearbook caliber, and Caldwell's interviewees are a strangely faceless lot, given to some of the most doubtful quotes outside the fine print of a New Yorker filler. A folksy old lady called Aunt Martha, of Riverhead, Long Island, moans over "this creeping menace of real estate, these acres and acres of housing colonies, shopping centers, garish neon lights blazing all night long, and every other kind of desecration of beautiful Long Island." At nearly every stop...