Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bernard Shaw once said that ten years of cheap reading had transformed the English from the most stolid nation on earth to the most sentimental and hysterical, but, as with generalizations of this sort, the exact opposite is also true. People who are allowed to satisfy their sentimental and morbid desires, and to indulge their delusions of grandeur by way of the romantic novel, the detective story and the heroic biography, are less liable to exercise them in real life. What the Freudians call a " compensation mechanism " is set up by trashy literature which dissipates the energy of the impulses...
...Capri he is stricken with mortal illness. At once the hotel manager loses his politeness, hustles the body into a cheap coffin, and it is carried back on the same expensive ship to America. The story is told with vividness and cruel humor. The other stories relate strange and morbid events. All are lone with great...
Though M. A. B. has "bolstered" his array of adjectives with only two specific instances, his characterization of these eighty poems as "morbid", "disordered", "pleasant", "grotesque", "formless", "meager", "eccentric", "odd", "tricky", and "unhousebroken", is evidence of a sensitiveness hardly to be expected from out ingenuous pachyderm. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20 February...
...gone among college athletes may be inferred from the attention paid in recent discussions to students who have moved from one college to another and who are designated by the question-begging name of "tramp athletes." Offhand a reasonable man might believe a tramp athlete the figment of a morbid imagination. He who hires a university athlete to come from another college must pay the way of that athlete for one year before he is eligible for intercollegiate athletics of any sort; and he must do this on the chance that at the end of this pauperized year the athlete...
...existing order the challenge now is for men to defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always does--and while the general public of other times used to cherish the vague idea that everything was all right it now cries with a morbid glee that Heaven and Earth and Hell thereunder are all hopelessly out of joint with no chance of ever being set straight again...