Word: morbidness
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When Dr. Booker T. Washington conceived the clinic in 1912 for "the study of morbid conditions" among the South's needy, Southern Negroes had few doctors, hardly any hospitals. But as such "morbid conditions" began to recede, the clinic changed from a kind of emergency school for overworked, ill-equipped doctors to an increasingly learned seminar, is now the country's biggest, most active interracial clinic (others: St. Louis' city-owned Homer G. Phillips and Washington, D.C.'s Freedman's Hospital Clinics). White doctors, once only a handful at Andrew meetings, have been attending...
...early in the evening. The play's humor reaches its peak in the second act, when the freshly killed Bennett, his head covered with a lampshade, sways back and forth in the living room while the female Honeys entertain a guest. From this point on, the author's morbid inspiration slowly flickers out, and the humor of the last act consists largely of geographical jokes ("Sinning is in its infancy in Boston") and the standard Irish dialogue that is contributed by two standard Irish cops. Logically, the denouement could probably use a little more elaboration, but from the point...
Maudlin or Morbid. Pope turned a searing blast of his flamethrower on the out-and-out secular as well as the bogus Christian. "If you give nearly eighty percent of your time to entertainment and two percent to religion, the implications of that fact are not lost on the public ... If religious programs are often maudlin, a high percentage of the other programs is simply morbid...
...Black Rock chase each other with automobiles instead of horses, the movie is unquestionably a western. When Spencer Tracy steps off the streamliner into the Arizona hamlet, it is the first time the train has stopped there in for years. Vast desert countryside, in CinemaScope, presents an appropriately morbid and untrammeled background for Black Rock, which contains the usual lawless gang and hapless sheriff. Conspicuously absent, however, is the stereotyped melodrama which might have brought Bad Day at Black Rock down to the level of typical cowboy films...
Sprinkled among the first-nighters there will be a few people, however, watching the play with a theatrical sort of morbid curiosity. These few will have come not so much to see a new hit as to see exactly what ails a show that has twice postponed its Broadway opening, has experienced extensive revisions during a full twelve weeks of try outs, and has been formally disowned by the man still billed as it co-author, Silk Stockings, despite its big names and its tremendous $850,000 advance sale, has had more trouble to date than virtually any other musical...