Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once people became aware of his unpredictable nature, they were filled with morbid curiosity to find out what emotion he would bring to the surface in response to a loaded question. Like a born actor, Byron guessed what they were after, rarely disappointed their expectations...
...with a mixed feeling of revenge and morbid curiosity that we put sociological tactics to use in determining how the Harvard element would react if suddenly placed in our shoes (green suede). Donning our best overalls we approached ten or eleven of the more proper looking specimens up for the football game and rendered an oral examination consisting of one question: "Are you from Harvard...
...hard time handling them. He claims, for instance, that "if I go into a room where there are a hundred people, and one of them doesn't like me, I'll know it, and I have to get out of there." This is possibly a somewhat morbid and perhaps flamboyant exaggeration of his condition, but his friends say that he often does seem to flounder in a sea of impressions. It is to resist them, they say, that he puts up his arbitrary, antisocial front...
...Communists) but like a case of impetuous defection at the height of an emotional jag. John had been hitting the bottle, and telling friends of his concern over what he regarded as the return to power in West Germany of former Nazis. He disappeared immediately after attending the morbid anniversary observance of the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life (his own brother was executed in the bloody aftermath of that unsuccessful plot...
...hairless brushes, he powerfully portrayed the hunched reticence of schizophrenia, the hauteur of megalomania, the stares of poverty and disease. His show of 43 ink drawings and watercolors at Washington's Pan American Union caused one old lady to ask: "How can you be so young and so morbid?" To this often repeated question, Cuevas replies flatly: "My interest in the dying and the insane is my vision of modern life...