There was no recycling bin for old folks then, no such thing as a senior-citizens community; AARP (or was it Arrf?) was what Little Orphan Annie's dog Sandy barked in the funny pages and most of us lived in a messy, noisy, but exhilarating human mix, a cacophony of generations.
Their faces stared up from the dusty stretch of tarmac outside New Cairo's police academy, a silent roll call of butchery laid out like a human carpet amid a cacophony of chants, sirens and camera clicks in the morning sun.
With its blend of eerie futurism and ancient bombast, Mansell's music lends harmony to the cacophony of human voices: Ray Winstone with a hint of pulpit-posh as Noah's meat-eating adversary Tubal-cain; Anthony Hopkins unashamedly Welsh as a wizard-like Methuselah; and Crowe doing all points Robin Hood in between bouts of sullen silence and teeth-gnashing roaring.
And perhaps Caroline Shaw, who won this year's Pulitzer Prize in music for her composition "Partita for 8 Voices," could recreate the cacophony generated by human debates over how to respond to changes that are under way:.
He recognizes an old Brooklyn vanishing, and his portraits convey the psychic ruptures of gentrification but also what he described to me recently as "the complexities of the human essence". "We are a cacophony of experience," he said.
Humans are noisy creatures, our cacophony of jet engines and jackhammering drowning out the communications of other species.
I snapped on my headphones and heard nothing but roars and crackles with some kind of human voice deeply buried in the cacophony.
Most neurons send these signals many times per second; if each signaling event were to make a sound as loud as a pin dropping, the cacophony from a single human head would blow out all the windows.
Here the desert is a place of revelation and purification, temptation and testing, silence and cacophony, and a region of the human imagination and lived experience.
Both humans and machines are constantly flooded with a cacophony of sounds that need to be sorted through and scoured for relevant information-a phenomenon referred to as the 'cocktail party problem'.
