Word: morbid
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Money for repairs, for improvement, for uplifting, has gone instead to political purposes, to salary raises for our lady School Committee member's retainers, to placate her custodians, to reward her principals, to reward the Superintendent himself for his steadfast dedication to the morbid status quo for which she and he equally stand. All evidence, all confirmation of the inferior status of the ghetto schools has geen ignored, denied, refuted. Even the blunt fact of racial segregation, known well to anyone in the schools dealing with normal vision, went for many years unadmitted and was repeatedly denied...
...appalling thing about the play was the audience which laughed at it. When the crowd roars as one at a line like, "Your sex life is like a continual winetasting: you roll 'em around and spit 'em out"--then you begin to wonder about the audience and forget your morbid curiosity about the author...
Political aloofness, however, is not the most basic hippie trait. That is exploration of affection, of loneliness, of communication in general--a trait which the Beatles pluck from the depths of morbid introspection and express in their own constantly changing musical idiom...
...final work of the concert, and thus the final work of the entire Monday night series, was Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire Op 21, (1912). Set to rather morbid poetry by Albert Giraud, the work exerted a curious kind of fascination on the audience--except those Philistines who apparently could not take it and left in the middle. The work's success owes in no small part to the performers, particularly conductor Jacques-Louis Monod, who made eminent sense out of music that is all too easily incomprehensible, and "narrator" Bethany Beardslee whose negotiation of all the weirdities of Schoenberg...
...Negro son-valet interrupts Lincoln's speeches for definitions. Lincoln's two secretaries who will write histories talk about history. Characters repeat words for the sake of Meaning. "Till the day I die," says Abe. "The day you die?" say they. "The very day'" says Abe. O ominous, O morbid...