Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andrew D. Harless '83, who has put up several of his poems, says that for him, the board is a place to bounce ideas off of nameless, faceless critics before taking his work on to the people who really matter. The poems he has displayed on the board "have really been poems I didn't think were good enough to give to somebody whose opinion I trust," he says...
This time, it was me and not some nameless face standing at the bottom of that power pyramid. And from that perspective, I found, passivity and neutrality aren't so appealing...
...from the Kremlin's control. While he has put up with considerable disorder, which dismays his generals, he has demonstrated before that he is ready to use armed force to hold the union together. Now Gorbachev has adopted stale Stalinist lies by claiming he is responding to pleas from nameless patriots to protect the socialist revolution from fascists. To bolster those lies he is also moving to reintroduce censorship. It was no accident that 15 unarmed protesters died defending Lithuania's television center. Glasnost, which has succeeded, is as endangered as perestroika, which...
...moment of this realization, something deep within me--something dark and nameless--snapped, and it was then that I began to accept--and even embrace--the fact that I will be my class's Marshal...
With these facts and numbers in mind, then, the Brandeis Holocaust display and penny drive misses the mark. Why are Jewish lives more important than the lives of other Holocaust victims? Why should Jews alone be remembered by the Brandeis memorial while the other nameless, faceless victims are relegated to the numerical dustbin of history...