Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical definition: one who has "a morbid desire to dress in the clothing of the opposite...
...doesn't work out that way at Yale. Of course, the basic tensions that make exam period a morbid time of year are as present in New Haven as at Harvard or anywhere else. There are as many bleary eyes, poor appetites and ragged tempers; as much No-Doz swallowed and coffee drunk; as many rumors of students cracking-up, breaking down, and flunking out. What distinguishes Yale is the difference in the examination procedure itself. At a designated time, students pick up bluebooks and copies of the exam in one room. They can then go to any classroom, lounge...
Love is the most powerful antidote against criminal, morbid and suicidal tendencies; against hate, fear and psychoneuroses...
When Dr. Booker T. Washington conceived the clinic in 1912 for "the study of morbid conditions" among the South's needy, Southern Negroes had few doctors, hardly any hospitals. But as such "morbid conditions" began to recede, the clinic changed from a kind of emergency school for overworked, ill-equipped doctors to an increasingly learned seminar, is now the country's biggest, most active interracial clinic (others: St. Louis' city-owned Homer G. Phillips and Washington, D.C.'s Freedman's Hospital Clinics). White doctors, once only a handful at Andrew meetings, have been attending...
...early in the evening. The play's humor reaches its peak in the second act, when the freshly killed Bennett, his head covered with a lampshade, sways back and forth in the living room while the female Honeys entertain a guest. From this point on, the author's morbid inspiration slowly flickers out, and the humor of the last act consists largely of geographical jokes ("Sinning is in its infancy in Boston") and the standard Irish dialogue that is contributed by two standard Irish cops. Logically, the denouement could probably use a little more elaboration, but from the point...