Word: namelessness
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...nameless northern country, in a mansion like a padded hearse, a "lady of great beauty" sat winter after snowy winter waiting for the man she loved. The great gates were barred, the chandeliers were dimmed, and all through the drafty house the mirrors were draped against the reflected evidence of her advancing...
...will to freedom. In 1949 Winston Churchill was chosen Man of the Half Century with these words: "That a free world survived in 1950 . . . was due in large measure to his exertions." Last year, as the battle flared in Central Europe, the Man of the Year was a nameless, single-minded Hungarian Freedom Fighter...
...best disks have majesty and force enough to lift the listener from his chair. Centuries of reading aloud have not yet dimmed the Elizabethan magnificence of the great King James Bible passages, and James Mason brings sonority and good sense to his declamation of Ecclesiastes (Caedmon), making the nameless narrator sound as contemporary as an existentialist in Paris, as ancient as a Pharisee. The sound track of the movie Oedipus Rex (Caedmon, 2 LPs), starring Douglas Campbell and Canada's Shakespearean Festival Players, transports listeners inside the towering walls of seven-gated Thebes for the bloody working...
...begins to cry. "But when I tell them about all this," she sobs, "who's going to believe me!" He grandly scribbles a testimonial, and signs it. Somehow, after her taste of the finer things, life on the streets does not seem the same to the little whore. Nameless yearnings assail her. One day she joins a procession to a shrine of the Virgin. She falls to her knees and groans: "Holy Mother, help me to change my life...
...Niagara of Faith. Neither classical restraint nor stoic endurance can resolve the problem of evil to which Camus has always been acutely sensitive. In his latest book, The Fall, the nameless narrator plumbs the depths of his own and, in effect, all men's pride and self-love. Camus seems to abandon his view of man as a Rousseauistic innocent trapped in the vise of the human condition, and almost adopts the metaphysics of original sin. The irony is that sin without God to redeem it is just as unbearable as a world without God to explain...