Word: numb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names on Judaism's scroll of agony, describing the events and processes in the German gulag of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Belsen and other camps where 6 million perished. Elizabeth Taylor is surprisingly muted, reading the forgotten pleas of those who tried to reach through the barbed wire to a numb world...
Second, in addition to psychologically blocking out the danger, people grow numb to the meaning of the arms race by a perverse process of "adaptation" or "habituation." As Frank puts it, "if an animal kept attending to every environmental stimulus, its capacity to sense new dangers would be swamped, therefore the animal stops attending to continuing stimuli. So do humans...
DiPietro said that during the actual rapes. "I was physically numb, I couldn't fight. I was humiliated and disgusted. I couldn't do anything." But the doctors have claimed repeatedly that" in no way did she indicate she was not a willing participant in what was going on" and that what went on was "entirely of her own volition...
Biochem 10a student Ann F. Mohrbacher '83 said her fingers were so numb Monday morning that she had difficulty writing. "The cold temperatures made me angry because the Biochem exam was already so difficult; it was harder for me to stay calm because I was freezing to death," she said...
...himself into the public eye by suing the government for his life's subsequent turmoil; a Vietnam veteran, past 30, goes to Florida to watch the filming of a T.V. documentary about his sensational escape from prison camp a decade before. Or the pattern is inverted in "Some Straight Numb Commitment." A pair of teenagers married straight out of high school become hired "parents" to a flabby mental case in his 20s, and his insanity tinges their inexperience with crazy shades of age and sexual maturity. Age roles are almost always convoluted and distorted. T.V. is a constant scoundrel...