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...those days Andre Maurois wrote: ". . . There was an immediate clash between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...Quadragesima Anno (May 15, 1931). Not long after Eugenio Pacelli was born, Leo XIII looked beyond the Vatican and saw European civilization sick in body from social septicemia and sick at heart from the standing threat of war. In Rerum Novarum Leo put a fearless finger on the morbid core of Europe's social sickness. He attacked the misery of Europe's impoverished masses and those responsible for their condition...
...Since I shave every blessed day," Agustin Lara once remarked, "I have long ago learned from my mirror that my face has no business before a camera. But since people have a morbid curiosity about things that do not concern them, a film on my life-no matter how wretchedly done-would be sure to fill the movie houses...
Born in Paris in 1868, Jane Avril was the bastard daughter of an Italian nobleman and a morbid demimondaine whose cruelty for a while sent Jane to an asylum. Avril never had a dancing lesson. She and Lautrec probably first met at the Moulin Rouge in 1889. She had a son,* and in the year Lautrec died (1901) took the boy to New York, but returned in a month to her beloved Paris...
...usual, the issue includes two short stories and a few poems. Just why they are included is not clear. They certainly provide no relief or entertainment, for they are morbid at best and maudlin at worst...