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...occupying Americans had to fight bitterly for three weeks against a spirit army which moved in from Attu. In the South Pacific, too, Japanese spirits "have tangled with the enemy, causing many of them mental derangements and others to kill themselves as a result of nervous breakdown and morbid fear...
...Holmes novels, Elsie Venner, The Guardian Angel and A Mortal Antipathy, seem morbid, sententious, very unlike his other writings. All three deal with characters on the borderline of insanity. Contemporary critics called them "medicated novels." This description is favorably endorsed by Clarence P. Oberndorf of Columbia University, past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In The Psychiatric Novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Columbia University Press; $3) he finds clear evidence that Holmes was 100 years ahead of his time...
...York Philharmonic's first flutist, served accompaniments to those who wanted them, as a hostess might serve canapés. Near the door stood one of the club's nonflutist members, one Edwin Rosenblum of Brooklyn, who loathes the flute but cannot resist the morbid spectacle of an army of flutists pilliwinking away at once...
Death has seldom been more common place than it is today, but the Church of England's clergy are worried by a morbid attitude toward it. Last week the Convocation of Canterbury (a routine meeting) deplored the "unfortunate tendency to sentimentalize death." And, in so doing, they pointed up the growing popularity of cremation...
...Francis L. Hilditch of Rickmansworth asked that each case be judged on its own merits. He knew a woman who carried her daughter's ashes everywhere. Said he: "This kind of morbid, sentimental and neurotic reaction might be avoided if the Church insisted upon the burial of the ashes as her established and normal practice...