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Show Noise is taking over Accept the challenge and restore a bit of beauty and sanity to our lives i ' by Byron Brit Newhouse News Writer NEW YORK Noise is taking over. Those of us who care for privacy and an environment in which nature and the arts can be enjoyed in peace are facing defeat. That last is a word this optimist rarely uses. Surely, I feel, sensitive people will ultimately not only survive, but succeed. Well, when it comes to noise pollution transistor radios, Muzak, honking it is no good horns, shouting people pretending. We are being drowned in an angry din that may possibly endanger not only the ears, but the health and sanity of the entire human race. When generally affluent people disturb the quiet of every theatrical performance with their restless, thoughtless chatter and squirming then what and they do so daily! hope have we to curtail more violent noise in the form of portable sound monsters now carried by an muscular and uncaring multitude? MY LATE FATHER reluctantly decried the automobile as the worst invention of human society. I feel it is the transistor radio, coupled with an increasing indifference on the part of more and more people to the rights of any but themselves. Being a populist at heart, the sight of ever-growir- enormous crowds in our great museums, park concerts and other cultural activities thrills me. The other side of the cultural coin, however, is that it is now often impossible to truly see and absorb the great art attracting such mobs, and meditating on the beauty of a Monet or a Beethoven Quartet is most often absolutely impossible. Columns iike this rarely reach the people to whom noise is nothing more than a way of life, but it does reach many who can influence at least the more refined aspects of our daily activities. There are increasing numbers of laws prohibiting the playing of transistor radios on public transportation, but the frequent response to requests for compliance is an upping of the volume control by a person with ears of tin. BEFORE BARRICADING myself cave deep in the within a sound-proo- f earth, it seems worth continuing the battle for sanity and sensitivity by one g more "SHUT UP! to the boors who are making life increasingly unpleasant, ungracious and unbearable. A Sunday in Central Park is a sonic nightmare. There is no sylvan path without the screech of mechanical music, and one can enjoy the birds and flowers only in the dawn hours before city folks rise and sound off with their security blankets of noise that no sane person could describe as music. Cultural institutions are not entirely devoid of blame in the sonic pollution of their communities. Lincoln Center has made an admirable attempt to bring in people from every part of the city, and much of what they present is magnificent, even many of the popular outdoor entertainments. But far too often, they blow up a nice band with a sonic ferocity that blasts ones ears in an apartment five blocks away. harsh-soundin- - if any must THE REMEDIES come from those who care. If we are to free our landscape from trash and filth, and our soundscape from uncontrolled din. the education process must begin with awakening youth and adults to the importance of freedom within communal responsibility. Concerts have already been driven from the Central Park Mall by meandering transistor carriers, thoughtless bike riders and skaters. 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