Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Alumni Bulletin, it is clear that Harvard men are almost fiercely interested in their College, that they keep focused upon it a critical attention of peculiar intensity. The healthiness of so constant an inward direction of the critical eyes has been doubted; it has even been named morbid, a kind of introversion. If this were so, the alumni themselves could be counted on to make the most of it. The state of mind that can result thus seems worthy of examination, and the presence of the class of 1932, already composite with three other stages of development, gives pertinence...
Miscellany Morbid...
...psychic Occidental are more numerous in the Orient, and the continual flaunting of the erotic makes its impression on the unstable personality. If he evades it, it callouses his nature; if he succumbs to its wiles, it erodes him. In either case he may be thrown into a morbid mental condition...
ALTHOUGH Mr. Braybrooke finished his book before Hardy's death, its appearance is coincident with the renewed interest in the Wessex genius. It treats Hardy as a writer of prose and as a poet. From these two considerations, his doctrine is defined as a philosophy that is melancholy, even morbid in its inability to lead to anything that is tangible, or that gives an idea of the purpose of life...
...Laughs violates the three classic lunacies of cinema: 1) never follow closely the story of a great literary master; 2) always have at least one character who looks like the man in the Arrow collar advertisements; 3) never be thoroughly morbid. Hence, The Man Who Laughs is a truly great, a devastatingly beautiful film. It was made by Universal Pictures Corp. from the story by Victor Hugo, directed by Paul Leni (the German who did the sets for Variety), acted chiefly by Conrad Veidt (another German importation). The tale goes back to early medievalism in England where political irregularity...