Word: morbidness
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...ideas for his expertly drawn studies. "Every day," he says, "I saw a good accident picture on the front page of the newspaper." His vigorously abstract paintings might be interpreted by some as safety-first posters, but he denies any desire "to preach," tries to steer clear of "the morbid aspects of an accident" by painting his traffic victims without any trace of gore...
...life, like a bee at a rose, began very early to torment Rainer Maria Rilke. It tormented him unceasingly for 51 years, extracting from him a rarefied poetry that has delighted the palates of European esthetes for the last quarter-century. Yet Rilke's poetic flavors-and the morbid scent of wet rot that rises from his life-have prevented many a poetry reader from acquiring the Rilke taste...
Enormous crowds began jamming into the monkey house to stare at the stricken monster. Within a week, almost a quarter of a million people passed by his cage. At first it seemed a morbid and pitiful performance. But gradually it became apparent that Bushman was delighted by the shuffling, elbowing, staring people. He began to regain his appetite, soon was consuming 22 Ibs. of fruit, bread and milk. Last week he was able to get up and count the house. Veterinarians decided that Bushman, though enfeebled, might live on for months, or even years. But even if he died sooner...
...182TIME'S thanks to Explorer Andrews (66) for a lively correction of a morbid mistake...
...other worthy story is "The Death of Adam Sadman" by Siegle Fleisher. Its virtue is its creation of mood (Mr. Fleisher is well-traveled in the morbid regions of the human heart. In this case we are dealing with a hospital orderly who has always wanted to see a patient die, and finally gets his chance). "But the author must gild his story with psychological comment: "Life itself was nothing more than a perpetual dying, and because it was so, was more life. Paradox lay at the root of all being." Fortunately, however, there is little of this stuff...