Word: welled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his optimistic, convivial manner, Robert Alex Baron, 49, knows true frustration all too well. For three years he has waged a lonely, almost quixotic war on the steadily mounting crescendo of urban noise...
...loud and continuous, doctors know, noise irreparably damages the microscopic hair cells that transmit sound from the ear to the brain, thus causing hearing loss. In addition, it almost certainly affects blood pressure, heartbeat, and virtually every bodily function, and may have much to do with emotional ailments as well. Sums up Baron: "It is a form of persecution...
Muffled Bellow. By contrast, Europe is far ahead of the U.S. in noise abatement. Two years ago, Baron imported a muffled air compressor from Germany. With a well-honed sense of the dramatic, he demonstrated it beside the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Though the machine did not operate sotto voce, neither did it bellow. One U.S. manufacturer, Ingersoll-Rand, was sufficiently impressed to start producing a similar line of quiet compressors (from $30 to $4,500 more expensive than the unmuffled varieties...
...grebe's problems began in the late '40s when the local mosquito abatement district sprayed thousands of pounds of DDD, a chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide, on Clear Lake to rid the area of swarms of buzzing black gnats. The chemical, a close cousin of DDT, worked so well that developers previously put off by the gnats began building houses around the lake...
...think that the eyes of a pig have a particularly devout look?" he asked. Suddenly Hrdlicka began drawing symmetrically with both hands at once, something he had never done before. "The simultaneous depiction with both hands may be new to Hrdlicka," says Hartmann. "But it is a well-known archetypal phenomenon that occurs in the art of schizophrenics...