Word: morbid
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...these horror pictures in grim reality for days. We know these things from actually living them. We, who know what war really is, are not pacifists. We don't want another. We feel that these pictures are desired only by publishers for personal gain or by the morbid who derive a fiendish delight from pictures of war-torn wounded, hideous contortions of agonizing death, bloated, discolored, decomposing bodies of young manhood. The publication of such photographs will not prevent war. We know that helplessness invites it (witness China). We feel that pacifists like Carrie Chapman Catt, who weakened the defences...
...number of disadvantages. These separated during the years of their greatest development receive a distorted view of the opposite sex. Their future life partners are for them enigmas. They see them only under artificial circumstances, at dances and other social functions. Their attitude towards sex tends to become morbid and unhealthy. They have never learned by working together to adjust themselves to each other. The natural companionship between the sexes, which is so necessary for happy married life, is denied them...
...mingled in his soul a great desire to probe to the foundations and an equally strong fear and shrinking from exposing his inner workings to the chill light of analysis. But like the thief returning to the scene of his crime, the Vagabond returns again and again to his morbid pastime...
...grim law of the French Republic, the guillotine must be set up in a public place to discourage wrongdoers. Modern French police do everything in their power to make it difficult for the morbid to see an execution. Last week strong police cordons blocked off the street 200 yards on either side of the Widow. Gaping butchers' boys peered over policemen's shoulders to see the tiny figure descend from a horse-drawn van. refuse the traditional cigar and glass of rum. There was a huddle round the base of the guillotine, then the knife crashed down...
IDYLL IN THE DESERT?William Faulkner?Random House ($3.50). If you are collecting Faulkner items, Idyll in the Desert would be a good morbid one to get. An unpublished short story by the author of Sanctuary and The Sound and the Fury, it was limited to 400 copies, each signed by the author, has already been sold out. The story, told by an old mail-carrier of the Southwest with many false starts and digressions, relates the sad fate of a nameless woman. Married to a rich husband in the East, with two children, she left them to come...