Word: morbidness
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...debilitating educational system is to call for ever greater restrictions, for "law and order," and for ever greater elitism. ("Let those who are not here for scholarship leave, or be expelled.") This is the plaint of those so successfully socialized into the system that they have but one morbid fear: disorder. It doesn't matter how morally repugnant your actions are, they are acceptable as long as you keep them orderly and through proper channels. This is a pathological attitude, and the University suffers from it. It elevates rationality to extravagant heights, presuming that personal commitment, emotions, creativity and subjectivity...
...public An excellent byproduct of Lennon's recent wallow in self-pity is his latest record John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (Apple), one of the most fascinatingly dour LPs in rock history. Part psychoanalytical printout, part notes from a Dostoevskian underground, part black comedy, the music has a morbid, Mussorgsky-like power that makes it hard to believe that its author once wrote I Want to Hold Your Hand. Working Class Hero a relentless dirge with the style and strength of Bob Dylan's Masters of War?has the ring of hard-lived truth...
...another, quite brutal, where they all joyously massacre a town full of Nazis. Director Phil Karlson's fadeout is hopelessly sentimental, and there is a subplot about a woman doctor that sabotages a goodly portion of the film, but Hornets' Nest survives all this as a morbid if minor curiosity...
When Hans Christian Andersen died in 1875 at the age of 70, he was famous at home in Denmark. Some of the fairy tales on which his enduring name rests had already found their way into translation. But few people knew that the vain, morbid, brilliantly imaginative Dane was also a visual artist of real talent, or that his work, when viewed down the corridor of a century, would come to look quite "modern...
...extra-literary self-estimate, Snow has encouraged comparisons with Proust. But interior drama is precisely Snow's weakness. Motives scare him. In The Light and the Dark (1947), the second volume in the series, Snow began to exhaust his taste for the tragic in facing up to the morbid life and violent death of Eliot's best friend. The next novel, rather significantly, was titled Time of Hope. Snow has tended to keep mad ness and despair at arm's length ever since...