Word: namelessness
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...most of the paintings are portraits-the faces of scores of now nameless men and women who, in their way, wanted to be remembered...
...rhymed octaves (following the rhythm of Byron's Don Juan) are Ko, a young Japanese pitcher who earns a tryout with the Dodgers and throws with such force that he shatters grandstands: Dog Boss, a financier who has cornered the pooch market; Amaranth, the king of England; a nameless but enchanted fish; and Huddel, a cockney. The cast might have come from the nightmare of a blintz-tormented sorcerer, and its actions provide no political, religious or metaphysical insights...
...child-descended, 7 lbs. 3 oz. and still nameless, was scarcely 24 hours old before his mother's subjects began deciding on his future. He stands second in line to the throne after Prince Charles. Would he have to follow the dreary tradition of most royal sons, growing up in uniform only to lead a life of ceremonial drudgery? "A royal prince," suggested the London Express, "who was a doctor or a nuclear physicist or an engineer-that would be a break with tradition...
...closing pages of this novel, the nameless hero stands at the entrance of his room, compulsively clicking the light switch on and off. To his dread, he knows the light is working; yet no glimmer cuts the dense black fog before his eyes; he has gone completely blind. Danish Author Karl Bjarnhof, 61, has an un nerving intimacy with this scene and subject, for, at the age of 19, he lost his sight. The Good Light continues the fictionalized autobiography Bjarnhof began with his remarkable The Stars Grow Pale (TIME, April 28, 1958), taking his hero from boyhood into adolescence...
...Winston Churchill, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, and the ninth Earl of Portsmouth; U.S. Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson, Everett M. Dirksen and John McCormack, and a clutch of film notables ranging from Clark Gable and John Wayne to Joan Crawford and Walt Disney. There are also a lot of nameless people with money who, as Gable put it, "are so far down the list they seem to have got in just to do the cleaning." Possibly Profitable. Gambler Ryan, who also owns the Salton Sea Yacht Club and the Bermuda Dunes Club in Palm Springs, says that Americans are tired...