Word: namelessness
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Housebroken Suburbanites. Wilson's chronicle of his mythical county is a series of portraits of the demi-suburbanites who live amphibiously between heavily housebroken country and a U.S. metropolis (New York City). Unlike pudgy Author Wilson, the nameless narrator is a tall, slim analyst of the influence of social and economic conditions on painting. His neighbors and their doings are also imaginary, despite unmistakable glints and graftings of a well-known U.S. critic, a well-known radio commentator, an up & coming publishing house, a famed literary magazine and book club...
...adolescent girl who worshiped him as if he were King. She develops David's crookedly loyal captain Joab into a conscienceless foil for her almost equally sinful but conscience-torn hero; but she explains David's lifelong forbearance towards Joab only by the phrase, "a nameless fear." Her examinations of religious and mystical experience are sometimes emotionally convincing, but so loosely generalized that the reader nods at, without believing or suffering, David's intuitions of "other Jahvehs"-one of love, for example, or one who is blind and heartless...
Clear the Decks. In Portland, Ore., a woman asked her ration board for ten pounds of canning sugar for her nameless baby, explained: "The baby isn't born yet, but I want to get my canning done before I go to the hospital." Where There's Smoke. In Neosho Rapids, Kan., Farmer Ralph Blank, burn ing trash, watched a plane circle and land in a field nearby. The pilot, a cigaret dangling from his lips, approached and begged a light...
...during the slow years of my mother's unrelieved suffering, a somberness that was to make me stand apart and look upon excessive joy with suspicion, that was to make me selfconscious, that was to make me keep forever on the move, as though to escape a nameless fate seeking to overtake...
Other columnists and letter writers took up the protest. The New York Times lectured: "[The U.S. soldier] is never a nameless character in a comic strip, and maybe we should stop treating him as such...