Word: namelessness
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...major characters and make their destructive interrelations both plausible and touching, but also to expose through visual analysis a contemporary emotional tendency as real as it is dangerous: Sally is a destroyer not because she is evil, but because she is inert, drawn constantly toward blank-faced sleep and nameless dreams. She is an ambulatory case of emotional paralysis, and throughout Sally's Hounds, she infects everyone she touches with that disease...
...abrasive comic put-on, and the expiation is usually an act of physical or psychic violence. The room is a square womb. Though lighted, it seems dark, partly because it is sometimes windowless or tightly curtained against any blade of outside light. Outside this haven of refuge lurks the nameless, faceless intruder who will violate the safety and innocence of the room...
...cool style and gothic viewpoint make him a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. What is it-a burglar, beast or spectral thing? If it occurs in a Cortazar story, it is likely to be something nameless and decidedly lethal...
...anonymous Governor whom I allegedly told that "Dick Nixon is a loser" [July 7]. It will be especially interesting, since I have never said it or thought it. I am sorry that at a time when Republican leaders are working hard for party unity, TIME would stoop to quoting nameless sources in an effort to destroy that unity...
...TIME'S source is not at all "nameless," but we are bound to honor his request that he not be identified-a request with which Governor Reagan, as a political figure, can surely sympathize...