Word: morbidity
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...might suppose that everyone who had anything to do with the Führer, from general to cook, had been signed up for paperback. Five new volumes of Hitleriana have recently come out in English, and a brace of feature-length films-with more to come -have been readied. Morbid curiosity again? Not quite. Each is instructive in its own way. The first to be released in the U.S.-it opened last week in New York-is Hitler: The Last Ten Days, a retelling of what must be the best-known suicide since Cleopatra's. Sir Alec Guinness...
...first assumption then must be that research that involves human subjects is directed at some beneficial end for the human populace. Questions of unspecified ends other than the morbid curiosity of a psychotic researcher are unacceptable...
...alumnus myself of a distinguished mental hospital not at all unlike Harvard, I was not alarmed at the lightness with which "schixophrenia" was touched upon in King of Hearts. (Myself, I find the morbid excesses of neurosis in Bergman, for example, much less realistic and far more boring, especially when they're sprung upon me in the name of "entertainment...
...There were times when I was fascinated by it," he said, "but it was a morbid fascination--certainly not enjoyment. It was actually quite gruesome...
...irritating static buzz sings out from the radio, infrequently interrupted by clamourous chimings of beeps and rings and bits of voices. She is awake. The tension in her. Struggling to make the decision to move. The tautness increasing. This maddening tension as she fights feeling morbid about paralysis. She wants to love it. It is only that, if she does not conquer it, she will never be able to answer demands upon her. So? She equates abulia with original sin. Not like cigarettes, drinking, etc. She laughs. Come on woman, do it! The tremor of the laugh tickles down...