Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heroes. But there was still heat, smoke and fearful confusion upstairs. Firemen worked until they dropped in dark, furniture-cluttered labyrinths. Nameless heroes appeared. A tall, well-dressed man knocked on scores of doors, chatted coolly and politely, led the terrified to safety. A sailor roamed the smoking corridors knocking out fear-maddened men, dragging them limply to fire escapes. And there were more furtive figures-looters moved in the confusion, rifling suitcases and running their hands carefully over the dead...
...spirit of man as "the bloody, disgusting zone of revolution." In the strongest, least ambiguous sentences of his book, he upholds the Roman thesis that national unity must rest on the inescapable "reality" of society's division into "the rich and the poor, the illustrious and the nameless, the creative . . . and the vulgar." Each of these twins should have rights; but neither have the right to split the state...
...Spiral Staircase. Speechless Dorothy McGuire is stalked by a horror who shall remain nameless (TIME...
Housebroken Suburbanites. Wilson's chronicle of his mythical county is a series of portraits of the demi-suburbanites who live amphibiously between heavily housebroken country and a U.S. metropolis (New York City). Unlike pudgy Author Wilson, the nameless narrator is a tall, slim analyst of the influence of social and economic conditions on painting. His neighbors and their doings are also imaginary, despite unmistakable glints and graftings of a well-known U.S. critic, a well-known radio commentator, an up & coming publishing house, a famed literary magazine and book club...
...adolescent girl who worshiped him as if he were King. She develops David's crookedly loyal captain Joab into a conscienceless foil for her almost equally sinful but conscience-torn hero; but she explains David's lifelong forbearance towards Joab only by the phrase, "a nameless fear." Her examinations of religious and mystical experience are sometimes emotionally convincing, but so loosely generalized that the reader nods at, without believing or suffering, David's intuitions of "other Jahvehs"-one of love, for example, or one who is blind and heartless...