Word: namelessness
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...original thinker and neither is an original stylist, yet each has risen far above others who profess similar beliefs in somewhat the same manner. As Gold water is a cut above John Tower and H.R. Gross, so Graham seems far removed from Oral Roberts and the other nameless faith-healing Protestant evengelists...
...vision of lamentation and gnashing of teeth, of men who said sleep, sleep, but got no sleep, of fear and dread, of nameless horrors, for verily it was the examinations period and the poor damned souls had no CRIMSON to assuage their miseries, banish their grief, or even to wrap their fish and cover their nakedness (see page one) except for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays...
...progress of the play is like the scrubbing away of a painting to reveal an underpainting. On the surface, a court of justices in a nameless city and country is being investigated for harboring a "pustule of leprosy." One of the justices has made himself an accomplice of an underworld moneybags, and this leper-judge has infected and diseased the whole process of justice. One clever judge, Cust, steers suspicion toward Vanan, the aging chief of the court. Vanan is innocent; yet he is shattered and acts guilty. As the investigation goes on, Cust analyzes the inner torment and Luciferian...
...Author Parks, the hero of this novel grew up in the Negro part of a small town in Kansas. A kind of cross between Tom Sawyer and Native Son, the book is a blend of sunny memories of life in a large, affectionate family and the brooding fears of nameless violence waiting around almost every corner...
Over Verdun's ravaged fields one moonlit night last week, a bell tolled mournfully from the vast hilltop monument of Douaumont, where 100,000 nameless skeletons are entombed. French army drums and bugles sounded the solemn Sonnerie aux Morts, France's ancient salute to the fallen. A chorus of clear young voices intoned the German army's somber hymn, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. Then a torchlit procession of 1,400 young Germans and 700 French youths wound down the damp hillside. The ceremony was part of a movement started by Father Theobald Rieth, a German Jesuit...