Word: namelessness
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Almost everyone has had the near maddening frustration of hearing a nameless melody repeat itself diabolically inside the mind's ear. Relief is on its way. Denys Parsons' Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes, promises its introduction, works even for people who "think that A Flat Major is an army officer who has had the misfortune to be run over by a tank...
...OFTEN been said that ours is an antiheroic age. Nonetheless, Christians have had their share of martyrs in the 20th century. Men like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Alexander Solzenhitsyn and thousands of other nameless Christians have defied totalitarian persecution; many have died for doing so. Few men have borne more eloquent and courageous witness to the Christian faith in the face of tyranny than Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty...
...there is also a continuing brutal oppression of vast numbers of nameless and unknown workers and peasants, whose only crime was to try to improve their condition, to relieve their awful poverty, ignorance and want. This oppression extends to all who try to help the Chilean masses--doctors, nurses, health workers, intellectuals from many fields--all of whom now are made to feel the unrestrained violence of the military junta...
...nameless dread dogged him so closely that he could not work. Finally, his anguish became so acute that he decided to kill himself. So relieved was he by suicide's promise of deliverance that he broke down and wept, waking his sleeping wife, who learned for the first time how close to the edge he had gone and who helped start him on the road to recovery...
...elevator doors close behind you on the seventh floor of William James Hall, the stink of pigeon droppings consume the air. To your right is a laboratory filled with behavioral science's elite corps of experimental organisms. There they coo and peek in their numbered lofts, the proud and nameless pigeon menagerie that once controlled and were controlled by B.F. Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough...