Word: namelessness
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...narrator of this small first novel is a nameless American Indian. 32 years old, "servant," as he describes himself, "to a memory of death." He already has plenty to remember. His older brother died at 14, crumpled by a car while trying to drive cattle across a Montana highway. After years of "making white men laugh" at local bars, his father failed to come home one night. He was later found frozen "stiff as a slat" in a snowdrift. The narrator thinks that something has died in him as well; he feels "no hatred, no love, no guilt, no conscience...
Acting to maintain the President's momentum, his aides lashed out at Chairman Peter Rodino and his committee. Patrick Buchanan, Nixon's special consultant and once a wily practitioner of the anonymous news leak, assailed the "nameless, faceless character assassins on the House Judiciary Committee." Another adroit news manipulator, White House Communications Director Ken Clawson, charged that leaks from the committee were part of "a purposeful effort to bring down the President with smoke-filled-room operations by a clique of Nixon-hating partisans." Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren joined the chorus, deploring "prejudicial and one-sided information...
...Four of the players gather in their coach's living room to relive the glory of their come-from-behind win, to drink a few beers, to swap locker room jokes. The high school heroes, grown men now, still refer to their host as "Coach" with the kind of nameless deference that is usually reserved for a parent. They look at him as the symbol of old times, as an exemplar of moral and physical strength...
...behind the authors of the Nixon edition of the Watergate transcripts. Liberal Talk was just one of the styles tried out and discarded by these descendants of the nameless builders of the great Gothic cathedrals. On April 15, Richard G. Kleindienst '47 told President Nixon, "In the case of any, of any investigations and trials--you know, I mean--now that the time has come as a result of blah, blah, blah, you know...
...tale of a nameless deranged narrator who sits in his room at an overpriced Swiss sanitarium and purports to write a novel about a demented dreamer named Timothy Fogel. The narrator's own story about his itch to transform his experience into art and the Fogel "novel" are offered in alternating chapters...