Word: morbidities
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...master-of-ceremonies at the Christopher Columbus Community Center on Prince Street looked like he was making his last speech and insisted on telling morbid jokes. ("I was in the hospital six weeks, even. With two operations they couldn't kill me.") With the aid of an equally frail assistant, this doddering Johnny Carson finally sputtered Jimmy Carter's name. The President rose to remind 1000 senior citizens that they should be thrilled to be alive and loyal Democrats. He did it brilliantly...
America thus knows the small town to be many things. Yet today, given the morbid problems of the cities -the incessant shriek of crisis, the hovering buzzards of bankruptcy, the noise, the crowds, the filth, the violence, the fear-it is easy to imagine that the small town offers, no matter what else, an escape from all that. But does it really...
...that on matters of Islamic scholarship he is less profound than some of his fellow ayatullahs?notably Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Numerous Western scholars who have spoken to him have been shocked by his ignorance of modern life. He knows little of the non-Muslim world, and regards it with morbid suspicion...
Your article on teaching children about death [Dec. 3] brought back some memories of a class I recently had in high school. We visited graveyards and funeral homes. We also wrote our feelings about death. At the time we thought it trivial and a bit morbid. But this past summer a classmate died. Through our understanding of death we were able to cope and somehow adjust to the fact that we would never see our friend again...
Enough. A complete list of warnings would fill a shelf of books. Plainly the 20th century has turned into the Age of Admonition. It is also clear that the atmosphere is distributing more than a bit of anxiety. A modern form of morbid gallows humor ("Life is hazardous to your health"; "Everything causes cancer") has now become the respectable coin of small talk...