Word: numb
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...Utopian holiday of the Europeans as opposed to the mad American way of life [Oct. 3]. Obviously, the ulcerous worker of the U.S. has to keep up the furious and exhaustive pace to produce the money which permits the lazy Latin and feeble French to vegetate on their numb posteriors. And if the typical American has his ulcer, the typical European most assuredly has his perforated liver...
...that simple wakefulness is no replacement for genuine restedness. After two or three 18-hour days of writing, the quality of my work collapsed even as my fingers kept on typing. Though some switch deep inside my brain was stuck on "on," my soul and spirit had gone numb, incapable of emotion or creativity. I felt as if I were encased in a full-body cast that allowed me to neither lie down all the way nor sit up truly straight: a mummy...
...year, an election year. That must mean big numbers: voting blocs, body counts. But numbers numb, allowing easy generalizations of the Other. Instead, read these images; they humanize the abstract. "The Army" is revealed as young folks far from home, and "Iraqis" as 24 million individuals, some grateful to these young folks, others intent on killing them. In pictures of an athlete, a candidate, orphan kids who find a reason to smile, there is no They--only people who, when a gifted photographer catches them in a moment of their lives, sometimes add up to We. What follows are snapshots...
Although Yang was hospitalized immediately following the stroke, he told relatives Tuesday that the left side of his body is still numb...
...drinks, using rice, hawthorn fruits, wild grapes and honey, for religious libations. According to Zhang Juzhong, an archeologist at the University of Science and Technology of China, who discovered the shards, Jiahu's residents?who also made the world's earliest known musical instruments?"probably drank the wine to numb their minds and to help them commune with the divine." And given Chinese ingenuity, that probably wasn...