Word: morbidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the issue includes two short stories and a few poems. Just why they are included is not clear. They certainly provide no relief or entertainment, for they are morbid at best and maudlin at worst...
...Crime and Punishment," the psychological study of a starving student who murders because he thinks he is above the laws of man, follows the novel more religiously than its companion piece. Only minor characters and actions are omitted as the French production, a morbid thriller from the first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov...
...quiet, and to ruin her daughter's happiness. But to bring up all this now would invalidate the insanity plea and Bethel would hang. So Lerryn kept quiet, went insane herself ("she remembers nothing but is quite happy in her little cell"). Some readers may find this book morbid...
...philosopher Hu Shih is one of the outstanding disciples of the ramified pragmatist, John Dewey. Born in Shanghai, the son of a geographer, Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy as a child. As a teacher of English during the dark period before the Chinese Revolution, he grew increasingly morbid and dissipated, was once jailed for brawling with a policeman. He came out of this phase to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"), went on to study under Dewey at Columbia in 1915-17. Dr. Hu's four-volume student diary is still...
...Higher-rent areas are characterized by manic-depressive psychoses-alternate periods of elation and morbid gloom. But manic-depressive insanity occurs everywhere. Probable reason: incipient manic depressives often have a psychotically quickened "drive" which carries them for a while into higher-income groups and hence into better residential districts...