Word: numb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long memoir of Orwell's early school days, is a masterpiece of narrative. No one has evoked more memorably the brutality young boys can show each other, the elaborate code of honor that prevails among them. "In winter," wrote Orwell, "your nose ran continually, your fingers were too numb to button your shirt . . . and there was the daily nightmare of football -the cold, the mud, the hideous greasy
Taking pictures on the peak, Herzog saw his only pair of gloves go rolling down the slope for good. Almost immediately his hands were numb. Hurrying down, the two met a pair of waiting colleagues at the 25,300-ft. level, and it seemed that the worst was over, when Lachenal slipped and fell 300 ft. to the ice below. Miraculously, he broke no bones, but he had suffered a concussion, and all four spent a dreadful, storm-whipped night in tiny tents. Going down the next morning, they lost their way. By then, both Herzog's and Lachenal...
...went their only rope. Two boys set out for help; the third stayed at the scene. From the depths of the crevasse, young Jessett shouted that his arm was broken. The hours dragged by. "The snow is getting me all wet," Jessett called. "My fingers and toes are going numb. Hurry...
...TIME, April 28, 1947). Let It Come Down shows the point such novels have reached in the last decade or two. In the Kafka world, the victim-hero was still able to react to his miseries with horror. In the Bowles world, the victim-hero is both amoral and numb. He will commit any crime in order to give himself the feeling of having "a place in the world, a definite status, a precise relationship with the rest...
When Sir Augustus d'Este (a cousin of Queen Victoria*) fell ill, he made a careful note of his symptoms: he saw double, could scarcely balance himself, felt weak all over, and parts of his body were numb. That was in 1822, and for a century and a quarter, physicians could do nothing more for the illness he described than to give it a name: multiple sclerosis. There are at least 250,000 victims in the U.S. alone; most are disabled by it in the prime of life. D'Este, a typical case, lingered for 26 years...