Word: numb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after all this, it is still a highly aimable company performing an entrancing play in powerfully adapted trancing play in powerfully adapted surroundings. Sitting on the ground numb as one foten feels, one knows with unshakeable cetainty that entertainments at court were once and remain the sweetest of luxuries...
When in referring to the poets and the war you say, "At first the horror of it all, seemed to numb them . . ." you mean, I suppose, that the rest of us more "worldly" creatures were unmoved. I underlined "of it all" because it's the tone of such phrases that makes me doubt that the poets are the ones who are in a "self-sealing vacuum." It may just be possible that TIME Magazine is living in a dream world. That ivory tower of yours is being engulfed by a "self-sealing vacuum," you'd better watch...
...World War II. Poet Thomas, with his golden rain of words and his great brass gong of a voice, reminded poetry of its origins in ritual and chant. And the war forced poets to face political, social and spiritual realities. At first, the horror of it all seemed to numb them; the war itself produced no genuinely great poetry in English. But such poets as Karl Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, Richard Eberhart and Britain's Henry Treece were moved to describe their military experiences in rough-edged verse that some did not like but all could understand. Suddenly the poets...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24--Trumbull College's touch football six over-came the handicap of numb hands and a slippery football to slap a 38-18 shellacking on Dunster House for the touch football championship of the world here this afternoon...
Last week Dr. Russek described the case of an upstate New York electrician who lost his left arm and suffered massive scarring in an electrical burn last year. The patient, 38, felt that his phantom left arm was doubled behind him, that the hand was numb, and that every now and then electric shocks coursed up and down the arm, with sparks snapping off his fingertips...