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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...
...know what it is to succumb to an insurmountable day mare-a whoresome lethargy-an indisposition to do anything-a total deadness and distaste-a suspension of vitality-an indifference to locality-a numb soporifical goodfornothingness-an ossification all over-an oyster-like insensibility to the passing events-a mind stupor-a brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience...
...most notorious jails. The cells were so packed with political prisoners that some were held in the halls and bathrooms. I was placed in a tub of ice water. I don't know how long I was kept there, but when they dragged me out I was numb and almost senseless. My skin was frozen and felt like wood. "Let's warm him up," said an Islamic Guard. The two began whipping me with cables. At first I couldn't feel much pain, but then it got sharper and sharper. I was bleeding all over. I passed...
...Numb, yes. Diverted, no. Having been turned upside down four times already, I decided that twice more couldn't hurt. I headed for the "Tidal Wave"--and got a terrifying lesson in the wonders of centrifugal force. Somehow--the red marks on my palms where I had clutched the safety bar gave me a clue--I managed to survive this assault on my sense of spatial order, and I even enjoyed...