Word: morbidities
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...Cancer, the Illinois Supreme Court last month declared the book obscene -"a series of revolting sexual encounters described in the most filthy and obscene language imaginable." The court also gave the back of its hand to Nightclub Comedian Lenny Bruce, upholding an obscenity charge on the grounds of his "morbid interest in sex." Last week the court said oops, and in a rare move withdrew both opinions. Reason: the U.S. Supreme Court had meanwhile reversed a Florida ban against Tropic and narrowed its view of what constitutes obscenity (TIME, July 10). So like all good judges, whatever their personal opinion...
...generation after Thayer's death, at 80, in 1897, British Critic Ernest Newman set the fashion in psychological evaluation of Beethoven by concluding that he suffered from "morbid sex obsessions" because of his troubles with syphilis. Alexander Wheelock Thayer belonged to a gentler, less analytic age. All he could finally conclude about the man he had spent his life studying was that, take him all in all, his was "a very human nature, one which, if it showed extraordinary strengths, exhibited also extraordinary weaknesses...
...outraged at your article likening Balanchine's Ballet to a jewel and comparing it to the Russian Ballet or the Royal Ballet. Balanchine's product is neither beautiful nor profound. It certainly is pathetic that a theatrical product that is morbid and depressing should open our cultural center and almost monopolize it as far as ballet is concerned...
...funeral was one of the most largely attended we had ever conducted. But the turn-out did not mislead me. The dramatic manner of the youngsters' going and the way the press played it up brought out a horde of morbid curiosity-seekers none of whom knew either Alice or Eric by sight in life...
...seems at times, looking at Mississippi's actions, as if there is a morbid wish to force the Federal government again to send troops to that state," he said...