Word: namelessness
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...with Cabaret, Prince's first concern in Zorba is atmosphere. The tone of the show, sustained through the entire evening, is set the moment the curtain rises. The entire cast, only nameless figures at this point, sits in a semi-circle that stretches across the stage. Some are talking; some are joking; some have musical instruments and are singing snatches of Greek songs. This is Greece...
...Nameless Coffee House, 3 Church St., begins its second year today with the film "Requiem for a Heavyweight." It will be open from 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays throughout the year with entertainment and refreshments. Everything is absolutely free...
...best of conspiratorial reasons, most of the delegates refused to identify themselves. The nameless U.S. representative made one appearance and then disappeared mysteriously. Many others did not attend the official sessions, where they would be all too visible, but spent their time in clandestine nocturnal gatherings. The bulk of the delegates had undoubtedly seen more ardent days. They were mostly men in their 50s and 60s who wore 1940-vintage clothes and preferred suspenders to belts. The Bulgarian representative, exiled in Paris for the past three decades, had the same reply to virtually every motion. "Bulgarie I'accepte...
...dying Rawcliffe's pure cynicism is so eminently pitiable that Enderby instead becomes a fast friend, and as if this small magnanimity had opened the way for a flood of emotion, the book ends with an almost-love affair in which Enderby is dazzled by a nameless girl who could be his muse in the flesh...
Listlessness of Limbo. Agnon's nameless Wandering Jew in this 1939 novel is a fortyish exile returned from Palestine after World War I to the East European town of his youth. Moving into a small hotel, the wanderer becomes "that man who was a guest for the night and stayed for many nights." Agnon himself was born in the Galicia region of Austro-Hungarian Poland, went to Palestine as a very young man, then back to Europe during World War I before returning to his adopted homeland. Obvious elements of disenchanted autobiography are present in the words that another...