Word: morbid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least in an artist's life, Thomas Mann claims, the productive, active period, and the didactic, reflective period. One does not pass from one to the other without mental pain. That is the problem of Gustav Achenbach who dies a rather ignominious death in Venice. This work, though morbid and bitter in tendency, shows Thomas Mann at the height of this career in handling words, in mastering the language. There are few pages in German literature comparable with some in "Death in Venice", particularly those which are transcribed from Plato...
Nine days has been set as the proverbial duration of a world wonder, but twelve days have elapsed since Captain Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, and still the tide of popular laudations is at flood. But praise and honor are becoming adulterated by that morbid interest which the public loves to take in its heroes. The old policy of sentimental advertising is followed: a popular song has appeared in his honor, and Parisian cafes have doubtless added a dash to absinthe to some drink and christened the concoction after the flyer...
...many showed any visible "sweetness and light". The slow moving procession looked exceedingly sour, very morbid. And yet over the head of each was a divine halo: his last major operation had been completed. Like the etherized victim of a surgeon's knife, each member of the English legion would soon send into the world of affairs the messagee, "resting successfully...
...censorship is necessary. The cities are everrun with the nouveaux-riches, who have developed into theatre-going crowds since the war, just like white worms swarm out of the ground when you lift up a big, flat stone, These people can buy $5.50 theatre tickets indefinitely to satisfy their morbid curiosity for common filth...
...colleges, those institutions should be no novelty to any man or woman who knows how to read. It is difficult to find a logical reason for all the excitement; undergraduates as a whole let the world, including such newspapers and magazines, alone; why should those papers evince such a morbid interest in them? Evidently, however, their editors find that the propaganda is welcomed by a certain class of readers; if they continue their researches indefinitely, they should finally succeed in creating a mass of myths and legends concerning the College Boy--the discussion of the Younger Generations having at last...