Word: numb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Today, executives are trying to smile through the red ink. Editor-Publisher Lloyd Wendt, 63, who directed Today's transformation into a tabloid in 1969, is convinced that sluggish ad revenues will strengthen rapidly now that his paper has taken the afternoon circulation lead. Chicagoans' ears are numb from repetitive radio spots that trumpet: "Chicago Today! Writing worth reading ... and repeating...
...local bar, get loaded and reel home, where they have a generous number of nightcaps with their spouses and generally make asses of themselves. Rather clumsily the less-than-novel point is made: parents are self-centered hypocrites who worry about their daughter's taking drugs while they numb themselves nightly with booze...
...Cool v. Numb...
...circuits. Even when he is strolling down the street, minding his own business, his poor brain jerks under the impact of instructions (WALK-DON'T WALK), threats (TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED), and newsstand alarms (PLANE CRASH AT TEL AVIV). Finally, Le Clézio's Everyman goes numb-nature's last defense. Spoken words become mere sounds, a meaningless buzz in the ears. The most urgent printed words-a poem by Baudelaire, a proclamation of war-have no more profound effect than the advice he reads (without really reading) on a book of matches: PLEASE CLOSE COVER...
...culture sprang more than anything else from rock-'n'-roll music. The new awareness took its energy from the shattering, obliterating volume of electrically amplified music, so awesomely loud it made pant legs flap and ears go numb for days. This volume, so enormous it was more movement than sound, amounted to a new form of violence, and when it coupled with the anarchic, brute-sexual rhythm and lyrics of rock-'n'-roll music, it produced a mass catharsis...