Word: nameless
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Heraclitus was of royal blood but renounced his heritage. He looked on his fellow Ephesians with a certain aristocratic desdain. He hated the mediocrity of those who "eat their way/ toward sleep like nameless oxen." The Ephesians, he wrote, "say, No man should be/ worthier than average. Thus,/ my fellow citizens declare/ whoever would seek/ excellence can find it/ elsewhere among others...
Peter's inspiration for the city probably came from Amsterdam. But his ambition quickly grew. It was to be the Paris, the Venice of the North. As usual in Russia, nameless Russians from remote villages were sacrificed to the leader's dreams. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands died. St. Petersburg, the 19th century historian Nikolai Karamzin wrote in words that fit today, "is a city founded on tears and corpses." It was, many felt, a fitting legacy of Russia's greatest reformer, who dragged his empire into the modern age by a mixture of will-power and terror...
...Crimson has had trouble restraining a daunting foe named Archibong (Yale's Ime Archibong helped his team beat the Crimson with 19 points), but has also effectively shut down a player who is good friends with a bong (a certain Dartmouth player, who shall remain nameless, seemed to be struggling to overcome an apparently wicked buzz...
More intersted in new works than old classics? Then check out Split Confusion, a one-act comedy by Ned Colby '02, who is also a Crimson editor. The play follows the experiences of Georges Depardiue as he is transported to a nameless place where he meets two copies of both himself and his girlfriend from parallel dimensions. And the absurdity only begins there. But beneath the surface, this "farce with a brain" probes deeper issues of the media and identity. So make your way to the Adams Pool Theater for laughter and thought all at once...
...Robertson, focusing on one character's descent into madness becomes a means of avoiding the madness trap. Not until the end of the play does Mary Girard admitor rather, accepther insanity. But she is surrounded from the very beginning by nameless characters whose abnormal mental states are already well established, making her the only persona in the drama with any degree of development. The Furies, as Robertson calls them, are dramatic constants, little more than moving pieces of scenery in the story of Mary's fall from sanity. But this dramatic bracketing of the other characters on stage...