Word: namelessness
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...conclusion of Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak wrote, "One day, Lara went out and did not come back. She must have been arrested in the street at that time. She vanished without a trace . . . forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the innumerable mixed or women's concentration camps in the north." Olga Ivinskaya last week was following the course of her fictional self to the bitter...
...nameless U.S. official's reference to Francis Powers as "no Nathan Hale," it is time we remembered that Mr. Kale's inspiring words were uttered on the gallows, not in the prisoner's dock. Heroic last words should not be compared with a defense action in a trial at law, albeit a "rigged" trial...
...glance at a stiffly goose-stepping German Communist honor guard, then stepped to the microphones, fished in his pockets for a prepared statement, and read it in a flat monotone voice. He reiterated his Paris line that the summit failure was the fault of the U.S., and sneered at nameless U.S. statesmen who "are pulled on the strings of the militarists." But that was the last glimmer of fire. For a man who had just stormed out of Paris spewing a blizzard of invective and cracking jokes right and left, his performance was odd, unexpected, and curiously neutral...
According to the nameless artists whose duty it was to record his glory, Assurbanipal was as fierce as he was fearless. His chief business was war, and no victory seemed quite complete unless his enemies could be slowly tortured to death before his eyes. The days of victory did not last forever. The king's scribes duly recorded Assurbanipal's thundering lament: "I did well unto god and man, to dead and living. Why have sickness, ill-health, misery and misfortune befallen...
...majority of the artists are nameless, too, but from those who can be identified, historians have put together a picture of an ingenious lot. Jolly "Aunt Ruth" Bascom of Gill, Mass, liked to produce portraits by standing a subject against the light, tracing out the silhouette, and then filling in the face later...