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Word: morbidities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morbid. Even worse is what charity audiences do not want to be shown. Last season The Entertainer with Laurence Olivier went untouched by charity groups-it was "English and too depressing." Also taboo: Shakespeare, anything "controversial" or avantgarde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Theater Parties | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...judge from the far-out photography, real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems less concerned to assist the triumph of justice than to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...morbid and ghoulish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIES OF A VANQUISHED AMERICAN | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

...think a lot of people don't like existentialism because they're leery of Sartre," he noted. "When he says 'Man is a futile passion,' they conclude that all existentialism is negative. Actually this is mainly Sartre's temperament--he has a taste for the morbid...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Interest Value | 11/8/1958 | See Source »

...esthetic "ism" spring, obviously. from sources akin to those of Rousseau, Satie, Jarry and Apollinaire. Author Shattuck tries hard-and on the whole unsuccessfully-to cram all these tricks into a single bag. Despite the hearty, festive ring of the title, the "Banquet Years," says Author Shattuck, were essentially morbid. In his view they show the connection between modern art and a world that had lost its God and sprawled on the earth with many a gaping hole knocked through it. While the attempt to make four eccentric figures speak for an entire era is muddled, the figures themselves-four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unstrung Quartet | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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