Word: numb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these days, bad news arrives thicker and faster than the mind can follow, or bear to contemplate. Often it seems that all one can muster in response is, at best, some variation on Hamlet's simple formula for mourning-"Absent thee from felicity awhile"-or at worst, numb weariness and futility...
...left jaw, my neck, and the left side of my chest were numb for a few days after Princeton," Hevern said. "But I thought I'd be all right by the Brown game...
...always been simultaneously visible and obscure, martyrs but not men. As played by Gian Maria Volonte and Riccardo Cucciolla, they are credible and pathetic-good, bewildered souls whom history has scorched by its proximity. As they watch themselves railroaded to the electric chair, they shout in anger, then grow numb, and finally reach a plane of philosophy that forgives their executioners and redeems their adopted country. Director Giuliano Montaldo reconstructs the trial as if it were a kangaroo court and treats the men like innocents. This version makes dramatic sense, but it is, unfortunately, at odds with the truth...
...Little Numb. In addition to Ginsberg (and Kerouac), many of the people Cook interviewed-Kenneth Rexroth, Burroughs, Poets Robert Duncan and Michael McClure-make sensible distinctions between the Beats. In fact, the distinctions are so varied that the term "beat" means anything from tired blood to street existentialism to blissful cosmic consciousness...
...surprising, then, to find Cook a little numb by the time he gets to Woodstock, which he sees as the natural outgrowth of one Beat movement. Having gone there to observe the rock festival (though his base of operations was a motel room), he reports that most of the people he saw were sullen, mud-caked and silently straining to hear the music. He dismisses the claim that Woodstock was the soul-expanding event portrayed in Michael Wadleigh's film documentary. Well and good. But amid the chaos of Max Yasgur's farm, Cook seems a little like...