Word: numb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Julius recalls in The World of Haldeman-Julius, an anthology of his writings published last week (Twayne Publishers of New York; 288 pp.; $4). Wilde's poem did something to him. "Never did I so much as notice that my hands were blue, that my wet nose was numb, and that my ears felt hard as glass. I thought, at the moment, how wonderful it would be if thousands of such booklets could be made available...
While the drug takes effect, they report, the patient may show a variety of physical reactions: twisting, trembling, posturing, wringing his hands, laughing, rying, or curling up in the fetal position. He may feel unnaturally hot or cold, unduly sensitive to sound, tingling or numb, sexually aroused-or in severe pain. The pain, they believe, is often associated with the repressed memory of some injurious childhood experience, so it is an important factor in the psychotherapy...
Author Treat is utterly convincing when he describes an "alkie" expertly mouth-tipping a martini glass that his hand is too shaky to raise, or the numb, fumbling haze in which minutes, hours and whole days are erased from the calendar. He lacks conviction, or at least a sense of balance, when he fulminates against psychiatry, society and orthodox religion, and soapboxes the reader's ears on the virtues of A. A. (which relies heavily upon religion). Starting from the premise that the alcoholic may be Everyman, Author Treat ironically seems to end up proving the opposite-that...
...Connection is all about drug addicts, and it has a sporadic, hypodermic sort of distinction. The junkies sit in a pad impatiently waiting, but for nothing so vague as Godot: they wait for their "connection" and the heroin he will bring. They numb the hall with torpor, draw beads on the audience with four-letter words, pick their eyes, ears, nails and noses, and squeeze the "green stuff" out of a boil on one man's neck. They trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky...