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...exposure of entirely new biographical material relating to Virginia Woolf's childhood has created a sensation. Although some expert critics were alert to the curiously numb, dead patches in her outlook and in her novels, an aspect of her work expressed by an absence of eroticism, few could credibly account for it. Bell's revelation that Virginia endured ritual sexual molestations by her half-brother for years during her childhood is simply the missing link in our understanding of her tenuous sense of her own physical sexuality." The episode seared her mind: forty-five years later she could record...
...Adolph Hitler are obvious enough Fortunately. Nixon's most recent war comes how-else can we describe the bombing of so many more civilians with such impunity have provoked a more widespread response from Americans than any previous tactic of the war. Yet many, many Americans feelings have become numb to the horror of the war being waged in their names. The question is not whether Nixon has temporarily taken leave of his senses, but whether his moral senses have ever been equal to the responsibility of commanding America's devastating military power...
...continuing paperback revolution in children's books is doing wonders for parents, schools and libraries that have grown numb over the cost ($4.95 and up) of any hardback books for the young. Led by Dell and Viking, more and more publishers lately have been bringing out durable, attractive and low-priced paper editions of children's classics, new and old. Among the greats, near greats and notables now available...
...looking from Maria's angle it's peculiar she didn't join him. She's had an abortion Carter blackmailed her into. Kate, the only person she loves, is locked away. Maria and company are out of hope, and ambition is a lousy substitute for feelings. Maria's are numb, anyway. She goes on out of habit. When, finally, nothing matters, the B.Z.'s ask why stay alive. The Maria Wyeths answer...
...cope with any physical hardship. As she says of herself, "I do or die. I never cancel out." Certainly she has had plenty of excuses. In Yellowstone National Park she sat through a seemingly interminable speech by Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, her hands gloveless and numb as sleet pelted the frozen, huddled crowd. In Billings, Mont., a 40-m.p.h. wind ripped down the WELCOME PAT banner at the airport, left the assembled Crow Indians shivering in their buckskins, and carried away Pat's words in spite of the microphone in front of her. She finished her speech...