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Oddly enough, say the psychologists, more rural children than urban are afraid of animals, more Westerners than Easterners wish "we had a nice house," and more Midwesterners than any others are worried about their pimples. Girls are apt to be a bit more morbid than boys, but 16% of all the children sometimes wish for death...
...that "crime, violence and sex are a part of the world they will be called upon to meet and a certain amount of proper presentation of such is helpful in orienting the child to his social surroundings." But it frowned on shows that are "excessively" violent or might cause "morbid" suspense...
...subject this time is Cuauhtémoc-the Aztec hero who tried to defend Mexico City against Cortés after the death of Montezuma. One panel shows Cuauhtémoc being tortured by the Spaniards, along with a bleeding woman and a child with its hands chopped off. Morbid? Goodness, no, said Siqueiros, "unless paintings of Christ on the Cross...
Unlike his artistic hero Turner, who was content to sleep on tavern tables on his cross-country art hikes (and once had himself bound to a ship's mast during a blizzard so he could observe the snow), Steer had a morbid fear of drafts, never went out in bad weather; on landscape sorties, he carried along a platform to keep his feet dry. To make sure of respectful treatment from train porters and inn servants, he lugged his painting gear in a cricketer...
...cowing his countrymen, Trujillo has not escaped the occupational disease of dictators-morbid insecurity. He carries a pistol, frequently wears a bulletproof vest, is usually surrounded by bodyguards, employs a food taster. When he wants a drink, he calls for expensive Spanish brandy (Carlos I), has it sampled by others before he takes...