Word: namelessness
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...dining room. They were surprised to see that the gay table was not hidden in the corner but was prominently situated at the front of the dining hall. Upon seeing actual gay people, they were careful not to make any derogatory comments. It is much easier to deprecate a nameless, faceless entity than it is to attack individuals. If that individuals is close to you it becomes tougher still. Through this sort of exposure, attitudes toward gay people can be changed...
Lech Walesa and other nameless union officials and workers deserve our admiration. But let us not be sanctimonious about the events in Poland. The U.S. press and the Administration would have us believe that there is something new about a superpower cracking down on one of its pawns. What about Chile in 1973, the Dominican Republic in 1965 and-though the effort was unsuccessful-Cuba...
When Handel composed Orlando in 1732, based on the Ariosto saga, his cast of characters consisted of the hero of the title, the Queen of Cathay, an African prince, a shepherdess, and a magician. The setting was simply a nameless forest. "Handel's audience didn't need to be told who Orlando was, as audiences today don't need to be told about Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock," Sellars writes in the production's program notes. "As soon as the characters appeared, the audience had a set of collective expectations, and was ready for action. Thus, I think the logical...
...Stones that, no, they don't have any new ideas and a reaffirmation that they do their old ones better than anyone else. They're still singing about what it's like to look back on the frantic nights when they cruised London and New York with willing and nameless young women; it all seems to be getting more and more distant. Jagger has always thrived on irony, and he is in top form on the latest album, using his own retreat from hard living to keep the Stones driving forward with a thumping blues number like "Black Limousine...
...great genius. Nobility, wealth, honors, emoluments--it all makes a man so proud! What have you done to earn so many advantages? You took the trouble to be born, nothing more. Apart from that, you're a rather common type. Whereas I--by God!--lost in the nameless crowd, I had to exert more strategy and skill merely to survive than has been spent for a hundred years in governing the Spanish Empire... (Barzun...