Word: namelessness
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...Greek accent. He is Sinbad crossed with Sancho Panza. He is the Shavian Life Force poured into a long, lean, fierce-mustached Greek whose 65 years in the Mediterranean sun have neither dimmed his hawk eyes nor dulled his pagan laughter. From the moment when he pounces on the nameless narrator of the story with an abrupt offer-"Taking me with you? ... I can make soups you've never heard or thought of"-Zorba makes the heroes of most modern fiction seem like dyspeptic ghosts...
...face before.' " Then Wilfred -or the man Sutherland believed to be Wilfred - was swallowed up in the crowd, and pushed into a train which whisked him away before John Sutherland's shock had worn off. Sutherland's conclusion: Wilfred survived the war but came out a nameless victim of amnesia...
...Hunziker's "Water and Light" window, the ship at center right holds "a nameless group of suffering people who hope to travel upriver to well-being." Along the winding course ahead are a doctor and patient, a family bathing, nurses drying a sheet before a fire, a good Samaritan carrying a patient across a bridge, and a shepherd with his flock. At the source of the stream a couple roams blissfully in the paradise they have found at journey's end. In its quiet mixture of suffering, hope and joy, the window is altogether appropriate to the hospital...
Most Senators tip the barbershop staff generously (standard: 25? for a shine, $1 for a haircut). But some, who remained nameless throughout the incident, got to thinking that free should mean free. So Forest A. Harness, the new Republican sergeant at arms, told a sad barbershop crew: no more tips. When South Carolina's freshly clipped Democratic Senator Burnet Maybank reached out with a dollar and was told the barber couldn't accept it, he roared: "I won't break the rules but that rule has got to be changed. I been paying a dollar every haircut...
...frighten evil spirits away from their homes and villages on festival days, Mexicans put on the faces of nightmare bulls. Chinese dragons, purple monkeys, Byzantine kings, Greek satyrs, cranberry-colored Satans and a host of nameless beings as varied as they are scary. Small papier-mache masks for children sell for only a few cents in every market place; more elaborate examples, carved from wood or gourd, are used in ceremonial dances. Next week, during the festival of Corpus Christi. such dances will be held all over Mexico...