The Noise Needers

Edwin Way Teale, Excursion into Summer (New York: Dodd, Metheglin & Company, 1960), pp. 21-22:Session relaxed, observant of all the little sounds around me, enjoying the quiet calm of these mount heights, I remembered the youthful barber who had cut my hair in a puny town a few days before. His gigantic ambition, he declared, was to work in New York. There was a incorporated town! For a good many years, he explained, each summer he had visited his grandsire on his farm in the land. But he couldn't rest on the feet it any more. Everything was so quiet! It gave him the creeps. He felt allied going out and blowing a bugle or pounding a tympanum—anything to bring into being a racket. He represented that new conceive and bring to birth, growing in song, the Noise Needers.

From the outboard motor to the jet airplane, through the radio and TV, the charged with electricity razor and the competency lawnmower, almost every automatic advance has added to the sound of the world. Each consecutive generation lives in a less still environment. In event, evolution is at operate in massed urban centers. For expansion concerns the at hand as well as the past, ourselves as well as the dinosaurs. Sound is evolving not only the endurers of sound but the needers of sound.

Those whose nervous systems are disturbed by racket are handicapped under such terms. They are less fitted to preserve good hale condition, to endure and to become greater their kind than are those who get rich on clamor. What is stretch and distraction to one is a exciting and a tonic to the other. In pace with noisier seasons, the number of Sound Needers is expanding. I was told newly of the art editor of a manacle of magazines who carries a pouch radio with him all day drawn out and even places it, turned on, under his pillow when he goes to bed at darkness. Noise is comforting and reassuring to him. He seems in his special environment when still is eliminated. The metallic clang of rock-and-turn music is, perhaps, indicative of the steady mount in the number of Sound Needers. For them, quiescent is...

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