Word: morbids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...this reason, tragedy is an "explora- the morbid," and a "disturbance" as an outlet for guilt. Shake tragedy, Bentley said, "finds soft in human nature. It is Macbeth, Chatterly's Lover, that should from the mails...
...hard to see how even the most hairy-handed technique could tarnish a play about Sigmund Freud's first case. There is a certain morbid fascination about a pretty young lady in the throes of psychosomatic illness that would enlist most people's interest even if it were done by marionettes in High German...
...writers who purvey more violence and tough talk than I ever did." Critic Spillane, whose seven books have sold more than 30 million copies, is equally unimpressed by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner: "He doesn't write for the people. And why does he go in for all that morbid stuff...