Word: morbidness
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...trend that to each community seems merely a local manifestation takes on a different importance when seen as part of a national shift in sentiment. Such is the subject of shelters-a year ago the disdained preoccupation of a few earnest civil defense types; then the subject of morbid jokes (betokening an increased preoccupation) and now increasingly a topic of lively dinner table concern. This week TIME'S cover story is devoted to shelters, an impressive piecing together of a nation's bewildered discussion and preparation for what it once thought too horrible to contemplate. The horror...
...ethos of the U.S. stage and screen, is a man who believes that every slice of life is a Wiener Schnitzel. The theory works pretty well with the plays of Tennessee Williams, which Kazan perennially directs, because most of Williams' characters are merely engaged in a morbid game of tag your id. It works less well with the plays of William Inge, which Kazan occasionally directs, because most of Inge's characters have the sort of spiritual problems that the papa of psychiatry did not really understand...
...will now be fascinating-in a morbid and unrewarding way-to watch the hatchet men of academe attempt to prove that no writer earning a TIME cover story can possibly be of literary consequence...
...Henrique Oscar, who brushed aside the Method and the visiting production to go after Tennessee Williams himself and the psycheburger school of playwriting. "People bearing vices can be presented provided they suffer from them," wrote Oscar. "Their suffering may redeem them and arouse our understanding if not sympathy. The morbid world of Tennessee Williams has nothing of this. With him, aberration is presented complacently, with all the author's tenderness, as if it were the best thing in the world. It is sad to think that Williams represents a country which is Western and 'Christian,' whose style...
...make them. But people who have seen the film before-and some people say they have seen it more than 60 times-may have a more serious complaint: Why has the print been darkened? Every color has been tainted with sepia, and in some scenes the effect is downright morbid. Is this somebody's idea of what DeMille once described as "Rembrandt lighting?" Hardly. The Technicolor elements have aged; their chemical colors have "wandered," as the experts...