Word: morbid
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...town in the horse and buggy days. Robert Cummings plays a local boy who returns to Kings Row after studying the newfangled field of psychiatry and uncovers aberrations by the dozen in the minds of its citizens. His best friend, for example, Ronald Reagan, is being driven mad by morbid reflection on the loss of his legs. And Reagan's former fiance is going mad too, which causes no little worriment to her father, who is a sadistic doctor, and to her mother, who is a vengeful religious fanatic. And then there is another doctor, Claude Rains, a misanthrope...
...Harry Pulham in Harvard Square over the weekend raised in our mind the question of the Twenty-Fifth Reunion of the Class of '42. After worrying for a few hours about whether there would be any of the Class left in 1967 we settled down to the less morbid pursuit of guessing what Harvard will be like when that day comes around...
...psychological drama is fostered by change and development in the characters and mood which here remain static. The motivating secrets with which the men enter upon the scene are still secrets when they leave, and the reader refuses to absorb the mood when he cannot understand its source. This morbid flavor of the 'twenties, without the disillusioned bitterness toward mankind which produced it, is meaningless...
...Professor Schuman on page 290: "The gentle reader who has come thus far in these ungentle pages will doubtless by now be weary and not a little puzzled. A story of grief and pain seven times told is tiresome and baffling. No sane man or woman relishes any such morbid preoccupation with crime and folly...
...wealth is first-generation wealth, earned by talent or luck, spent by people unaccustomed to handling money. Hollywood's rich are very young (46% of the colony is under 40). Their insistent optimism betrays a vague fear that it can't last. This anxiety makes them morbid, self-deprecating complainers. As one sensitive soul put it: "In this town I'm snubbed socially because I only get a thousand a week. That hurts...