Word: namelessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...latest unemployment figures or, even worse, written up in the police blotters of local papers. Dubus may have decided that such wasted lives are America's fault; he may even be right. But the case made by his fiction is far more complex and intriguing. In Rose, a nameless middle-age narrator starts chatting casually about a fellow habitue of Timmy's, a neighborhood bar in a town, once again in Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. Her name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable, and she has a past that she confides to her barfly acquaintance one snowy Friday night...
...forms the centerpiece of his disorganized but surprisingly poignant autobiography. Bauman's dilemma was that being gay was incompatible with political life. So he wed and started a family but went on cruising for boys, for which he shows scant contrition. He asserts that homosexuals number at least nine nameless other members of Congress and key aides to President Reagan. But other closet gays do not rattle the door quite so clumsily. Bauman was so indiscreet -- stopping at notorious pickup spots in a car bearing congressional license plates -- that it is hard to understand why he was not seized sooner...
...some at the school--the upperclassmen--will be more a part of that school than those new to it. The school maintains it's continuity precisely through the process in which one gradually from year to year becomes more and more a part of the school. We are not nameless faceless numbers here; equal simply because we are all Harvard students. We are individuals, some who have done much here, others who have just arrived. To be truly part of this community--or any community for that matter--is to understand and to appreciate that process...
...class-conscious plots and genteel style of the British school of crime writing. "Hammett gave murder back to the people who commit it," said Chandler, who found the details of British mysteries as unexciting as "spillikins in the parlor." Hammett's early hero, the Continental Op, is a nameless abstraction of the hard-boiled ethic: "I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can." His connection to women is like kissing...
More than a century after Charles Dickens' pageant of nameless benefactors, twists of narrative, and startling revelations, Journalist David Leitch, 45, appears with a document that ratifies the conventions of the Victorian novel. In the first volume of his autobiography, God Stand Up for Bastards (1973), Leitch recalled his adoptive parents and the mysterious couple who secretly and illegally relinquished their nine-day-old infant. "This title might seem like a calculated insult to my mother," he began. "In a way it is. But I have a sneaking hunch--and hope--that hard words may entice...