Word: morbidness
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...There are three good arguments to be made against capital punishment that your Essay fails to mention. First, any prospective execution creates a sensationalism that makes manifest a morbid fascination with homicide. Second, execution has irreversible consequences that imprisonment does not have. This irreversible nature of the death sentence can influence juries to acquit defendants whom they actually believe to be guilty. Third, what does the rapist have to lose by killing his victim? Nothing, if the punishment for both crimes is death...
What politicians call "the Kennedy thing" is a psychological compound of iridescent myth and charisma, excitement and guilt, admiration and sometimes a morbid voyeurism. Even the blandest men in power?William Mc-Kinley, for example?can draw a maniac's fire. But the Kennedys are freighted with American legend and invite the passionate involvement of strangers. It shows in the grimy and lonely attention of people who have carved away pieces of the Dike Bridge at Chappaquiddick for souvenirs, or those who have taken to the Kennedy Center like locusts, swiping prisms from the chandeliers, bits of the wall coverings...
...that the novel is either lugubrious or totally morbid. It is by turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon. The story, scarcely disguised autobiography, covers six months in a young girl's life, beginning when she goes to New York to serve on a fashion magazine's college-editorial board. It ends when she emerges from a mental hospital after a breakdown...
Throughout the South, there are signs that the region is abandoning the fateful uniqueness that has retarded its development and estranged its people. William Faulkner's South?heavy with ghostly Spanish moss, penumbral myths and morbid attachment to the past?is giving way to a South that has discovered it does not need fable to shore up its pride or the past to cloud its future. Moreover, a generation after the process was largely completed in the rest of the U.S., the South is caught up in an economic expansion that is reshaping its social order. The South has become...
Another element in Japan's economic psychology is its long history of cultural isolation. When the nation was finally opened to the West a century ago, the Japanese felt a morbid fear that they were behind the rest of the world and a compulsive drive to catch up. In that drive, the World War II defeat and the U.S. occupation turned into a major plus. Occupation authorities purged the old, politically oriented heads of Japanese businesses, replacing them with well-trained technicians who had learned many lessons during the war. (Today's superb Japanese camera lenses, for example...