Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life in startling fashion-his braggadacio debts at the roystering University of Virginia, his self- inflicted infantry career, his self-arranged expulsion from West Point, his early ecstasies of mendacity, including the lie that during several months spent in obscurity at Baltimore he had experienced morbid adventures in Russia and published a novel (actually a French author's) in Paris...
Casual but successful experimenting had suggested writing to him as the means to wrest acclaim from the world he despised. When he feared that his only veins were sadistic horror and morbid, sexless romance, he wriggled out of admitting to limitations by translating them into, esthetic ideals. He propounded that perversity is a natural human appetite; that "there is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in its proportions...
...their ilk, well exemplified by the excellent Mrs. Nodden, and withal are honest, kindly, and thoroughly bourgeoisie. In spite of some seeming inconsistencies, they are clearly depicted, and the story of their very English, their very middle-class, mutual relations pulls its own weight. In these days of morbid writing, it is a pleasure to find a book whose pages leave one with an assurance of the existence and eternal value of simple goodness...
...counteract this morbid tendency the generous of the world have succeeded in devising methods of communicating for the deaf. One will recall the experiments which enabled blind, deaf, mute Helen Keller finally to speak. In reading lips most deaf people have become so adept that no longer do cinema actors dare blaspheme or talk ribaldry before the camera. Incidentally the cinema has been a great blessing for the deaf...
Although the superior powers of Mr. Wells will probably triumph in the end Mr. Bigelow's forcible style can make some telling points. In any event, the quarrel has promise of the acrimonious personalities which always please the bystander. Although not masterpieces of literature the rival invectives have the morbid appeal of a scandal sheet. The dog-fighting portion of the intelligentsia hopes that the quarrel will be long and litter...