Word: namelessness
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Madness is really what the book is all about: the madness that French Poet Stephane Mallarme called "the extreme Occident of desires," and that is merely the mask for a ravening death wish. The setting is a nameless, flourishing north European port. The narrator...
...were indeed fomented by agitators," said the Attorney General, "agitators named disease and despair, joblessness and hopelessness, rat-infested housing and long-impacted cynicism." Further complicating the problem is the fact, said Katzenbach, that policemen lack the confidence of the poor because they are "the visible symbol of faceless, nameless frustrations...
Harel's nameless successor at Shin Bet sharply opposed anyone's meddling in security and twice threatened to resign. Forced to choose between the two, Eshkol typically compromised: he kept Harel at a desk but gave him nothing to do. After ten months of inactivity, Harel last month angrily turned in his badge...
...Somebody showed me where you got some nameless guy, they most always are when a writer needs a quote, saying about Marion Javits wanting the Senator to see Hugh O'Brian and Columnist Jimmy Breslin! before taking a trip to Viet Nam. Marvelous. Now let's see. There was a third name there that Marion Javits kept yelling at her Jack to talk to before he went to Viet Nam. I think if you would call Marion Javits she would tell it to you. I think you ought to print the third name, too. Marion Javits' idea...
...occasionally to the soft blandishments of consecutive words but does it very well, particularly in two Costa translations. Derek Mahon, an Irish poet and Trinity man now in Cambridge, has conquered a deceptively relaxed idiom, and but for an occasional relapse into bluster ("The great wings sighing with a nameless hunger") uses that idiom most effectively. "The Fall of Troy," by Rachel Hadas '69, is a successful exercise in academic wit; her logic doesn't always carry, but the bulk of he poem rings true...