Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone who has seen a "composite photograph of the average American" has had a morbid distrust of all "composites" ever since. But the "composite Dartmouth man" in the Investigation of Time plays no dull, uninteresting part. He is not a mere paper-weights figure. He steps out from the statistics with an individuality of his own. That he is a man of taste and refinement is borne out by the fact that he allows forty minutes each day for dressing, and on Sundays ten minutes more. He is a man of varied interests, spending half an hour...
...graceful rhythm of the Ball and the pastoral idyll of the Meadows. In the latter movement the wood-wind choir did especially good work. But these are the only movements of the Symphony wherein Berlioz displays full poetic instinct. The work as a whole is married by that garish morbid-ness too frequent in his work. Mr. Monteux, however, is extremely successful with such "program music...
...unrest and uncertainty which, since the war, have so completely bewildered and befogged "the younger generation", Mr. Fitzgerald has a profound understanding of this phase of our day and is well qualified to write about it but after a time his refinements become almost identical with a rather morbid sort of introspection and the character he is drawing, like Werther or William Lovell, loses the right to be considered as a creation of literature and becomes merely an instrument by which he can elaborate subjectively on his emotional and intellectual experiences...
There is no trace of the incongruous about this book, for all that the heroine is (externally) incredibly minute. There is nothing unpleasant or morbid or deformed about Miss M. She is simply the distilled essence of you or me--or any frail other one of "the common size". All the people in these pages are alive. When next I am in Kent I am sure that I shall meet them--all save Miss M. herself who was so lately "called away...
...Schonberg Sextette is an exceedingly interesting work although it fares better perhaps in its original form than as arranged for string orchestra. It, too, could well stand cutting in half. This music to Dehmel's erotic poem is morbid and depressing, like a sombre engraving of dark greys and blacks which has only two flashes of white to relieve the monotony. These flashes occur, one in the middle in F sharp major and at the end in D major, when a sound like the rustling of wings comes from the violins. We cannot overlook the finished playing of the orchestra...