Word: namelessness
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...from James Dean to Ezra pound, the author exhibits a unity of purpose to depict a particular state of mind where the boundary between truth and fiction becomes hazy and indistinct. At the heart of these shitting surfaces lies Indiana itself, where these legends are tended and kept alive nameless, faceless acolytes...
...fraternity housemother, each struggle to discover or regain, their distinct identify, Ultimately, they seize upon the same potential solution--conscious identification with a famous name. (For John Dillinger, his own name.) Through this reflected or retracted glory they try to escape the squalled nature of their own lives. A nameless drama teacher dreams of the time when she taught James Dean "to kiss... and to die." A young woman writes to her missionary lover missing in China (John Birch) without hope of a reply. She writes "I think you can keep someone alive. I keep...
Additional polling information also indicates that the nameless Republican congressional candidate has grown significantly more attractive to the voters. Four years ago, a 50 to 39 percent majority of the voters went Democratic in the congressional elections. Today, while the liberals still hold a thin plurality, that margin has decreased from 11 to three points (47 to 44 percent). Moreover, in 1980, despite the generic Democratic candidate's advantage, the GOP nevertheless steamrolled its way to an over whelming 34 House seats...
...from July to September, Reagan's name increasingly carried more weight with the voters. Growing numbers of them who supported the nameless Democrat ironically declared that it's important to give Reagan the numbers he needs in Congress to push through his policies. Much of the electorate, then, is limp, easily swayed into joining the Republican camp when the President is mentioned...
What the New Right fears is that the Eastern Establishment will steal back the party's soul. Viguerie and his allies persistently threaten to form a new, pure conservative party. (So far it is nameless. Viguerie whimsically suggests calling it the No Place to Go Party, since White House operatives are always saying the New Right has nowhere to go but the G.O.P...