Word: morbidity
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...with emotions and situations utterly beyond the scope of the author. No amount of "realistic" phrasing can cover the gaping breaks in the plot. The greatest philosophers and moralists have wrangled over the problem upon which this story is based, and the solution given here besides being inadequate, is morbid. The effect left by the story is one of mawkish sentiment...
...absence of Mr. Blair from the cast was deeply felt. Mr. Pascoe as Solness, however, brought out vividly the conflicting elements of Solness's almost insanely morbid character. Miss Kahn, as Hilda Wangel, was the star of the performance; the mere fact of her having given to Ibsen's impossible heroine so much life and so much reality, is in itself the highest tribute to her acting. Mr. Lewis, as Ragnar Brovik, seemed much more at home than in "Ties," and played his part with greater ease and more convincingness. But the theories of the so-called "natural" school...
...nation with loyalty of a "possibly illogical nature." Perhaps he thinks the present Senior class will agree with him in his picture of the men they honored by refusing to withdraw their names from the list of Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under a "morbid impulse for personal excitement." Perhaps it is becoming for men who have been so fortunate as to receive the best education the country can give, to openly taunt patriotic fellow-countrymen by assuring them that their "loss by yellow fever will mean much less to the country than ours...
...This sketch deals intelligently and feelingly with the topic about which ninety-five per cent. of modern French novels are written. R. C. Bolling 1900, the author of "In Alien Earth," has proved that a short story may be on the subject of water-rotted corpses without being essentially morbid. Somehow or other "The Disappointment of Lord Hartleigh," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, with all its facility, fails to interest...
...taken by the outside public as more or less representive of Harvard life. As a matter of fact, it is representative of only "a very little corner" thereof, and represents this corner in a far from attractive light. With the exception of Haydock, all the characters are unmanly, snobbish, morbid or unhappy. That such characters exist in every college class is of course undeniable, but they are, after all, not typical of this University or, let us hope, of any other...