Word: namelessness
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...women who murder each other with all the weapons of devotion." So says the Peter pumpkin eater of the title. He is a loosely knit English screenwriter named Jake Armitage, and the wife he has put in the pumpkin shell is the narrator-a woman who remains as nameless to the reader as she seems face less to herself...
Then there were the customers and friends of the designer, the chic nameless women whose patronage often still accounts for as much as half a couturier's profit, who stepped out of chauffeur-driven limousines with cool, perfumed disdain, pulling sables close about them. For thern^ invitations were not generally required; they had their checkbooks in hand. The press representing the smaller papers kept to the backs of rooms, appeared pink-cheeked and pleasant, proved deadly when cornered ("Out of my way!" shrieked one Midwest reporter caught in an entrance crush, delivering side jabs and bloody noses with...
...recital halls, young musicians, faceless behind their cellos, remained nameless, too, with no reviews to account for their work. Even debuts at the Metropolitan Opera or at Carnegie Hall seemed curiously hollow events. Years from now, the performers may well expect cold, unbelieving glances when they explain the empty page in their scrapbooks by saying that there was a newspaper strike that all-important night...
...cold and brilliant statement of Kierkegaard's "either/or" maxim and Karl Earth's "theology of crisis.'' And like Freud's, his name has become an easy tag, employed by essayists and parlor annotators: Kafkaesque now suggests the small man confronted by a high and nameless menace, the humble man, anxious to cause no trouble, who finds that his heart has withered, the defeated man who wanders without hope through the streets of rotting cities...
Hard Times. At the other extreme are the Pures, the Authentics, the Real Articles-singers who are above criticism because they are living source material. Most are nameless, or at least obscure, an important characteristic for true greatness in the field. Kentucky's Jean Ritchie, 39, is perhaps the best-known authentic. She comes from a town called Viper, in Perry County, and she sings without accompaniment in a pancake-flat voice the songs her mother taught her while she wiped the dinner dishes...