Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enormous crowds began jamming into the monkey house to stare at the stricken monster. Within a week, almost a quarter of a million people passed by his cage. At first it seemed a morbid and pitiful performance. But gradually it became apparent that Bushman was delighted by the shuffling, elbowing, staring people. He began to regain his appetite, soon was consuming 22 Ibs. of fruit, bread and milk. Last week he was able to get up and count the house. Veterinarians decided that Bushman, though enfeebled, might live on for months, or even years. But even if he died sooner...
...182TIME'S thanks to Explorer Andrews (66) for a lively correction of a morbid mistake...
...other worthy story is "The Death of Adam Sadman" by Siegle Fleisher. Its virtue is its creation of mood (Mr. Fleisher is well-traveled in the morbid regions of the human heart. In this case we are dealing with a hospital orderly who has always wanted to see a patient die, and finally gets his chance). "But the author must gild his story with psychological comment: "Life itself was nothing more than a perpetual dying, and because it was so, was more life. Paradox lay at the root of all being." Fortunately, however, there is little of this stuff...
...Stop doping the Russian people with stories that they are surrounded by a pack of hungry, capitalistic wolves, and stop propagandizing the world with such "morbid fancies" as the notion that the U.S. is "craftily and systematically plotting another world...
...considered. That is, what effect would the actual commission of the 'mercy-killing' have on the doctor who performed it? . . . Soon the medical profession would lose the healthy bloom associated with the bringing forth and maintaining of life and it would acquire some of the unsocial, morbid air surrounding the hangman's trade...