Word: morbidity
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...Heigh-ho, I've seen worse things than morbid youth...
...Lower Depths (Albatros). Maxim Gorki, literary darling of the Russian masses both before and after the revolution, wrote The Lower Depths in 1902 to show the disease, despair and degradation of human beings at the bottom of Russia's Tsarist pile. Gorki's pre-Soviet cellarful of morbid, introspective thieves, drunkards and derelicts has been brought to the screen by France's Director Jean Renoir (Madame Bovary, Toni), son of the impressionist painter. In a foreword he announces his film as "human" rather than specifically Russian drama. For realistic squalor and decay Renoir copied the 1936 slums...
...thesis of his first two books. All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back; it remains the thesis of his third. To those who have forgotten the War or to those who never knew it, Remarque's preoccupation with this one theme may seem morbid or adolescent. It is not the brotherhood of man that moves his pen but the brotherhood of comrades-in-arms (Kriegskameradschaft). Readers of Three Comrades thought they could detect an almost wistful note of old-soldierism in Remarque's latest. Though he never refers to the War as the good...
...morbid depression which was the result of the Great War came a torrent of cynical and hopeless literature. The theater was beseiged with it, and even today the relies of that grim period linger on in all the arts. Little of this cynicism will be "noted or long remembered" except as something which typified the Twenties. But a few works stand out as having truly lasting qualities. One of these is Heinz Liepmann's "Nights of an Old Child" which has been translated from its original German by A. Lynton Hudson...
...complete female and, apelike jaw and all, a possible progenitor of Homo sapiens. . . . However, it seems to me that the most outstanding characteristic of British anthropology is the essentially sporting atti tude taken by scientists toward the discovery and acceptance of new finds, which may be contrasted with the morbid simian suspicions which obsess the Germans and the cynical detachment of the French...