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The best definition of noise, most experts agree, is "unwanted sound." What is most indisputably unwanted about noise is its capacity to cause deafness. And this seriously limiting disability is far more insidiously acquired than most people realize.
Freud dealt with noise irritation as a symptom of anxiety neurosis "undoubtedly explicable on the basis of the close inborn connection between auditory impressions and fright." But Freud did not live in a modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a...
The irony of the air-conditioner uproar is that, however unwanted the sound it makes on the outside, the hiss of air inside is just what the noise doctor ordered. Sound engineers refer to it as "white noise" or "acoustical perfume," and they use it widely, especially in offices, to...
>BEAUTY. Few if any of the so-called modern cosmetics are new. Besides shaving off unwanted hair with primitive razors, using rouge, shading their eyes and coloring their lips and nails, women of antiquity stained the soles of their feet with henna and touched up their nipples with purple dye...
Rare Solidarity. Thus the technical issues in the dispute with McNamara were barely discussed. The Pentagon's original request for $16.9 billion had already been fattened by the Senate, which authorized an extra $243 million to further a number of projects presently unwanted by McNamara, notably a new fighter...