Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likes Author Ward's psychic attitude, believes that The Snake Pit is "so good that you cannot read it in one sitting." Laymen, while appreciating the literary skill that illuminates the weird, narrow private life of the insane, may feel that The Snake Pit is just another morbid addition to the current boom in morbid pathological fiction...
Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel-she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working...
...resemblance to the Scandinavian drama, especially of Strinberg, which, if not handled with great finesse, can all too easily collapse into a conglomeration of heroics and absurd fantasy. In his contemporary Gorki, the intellectual depression around 1900 produced revolutionary ideas; in Andreyev it resulted in the almost morbid gloom of such works as "The Red Laugh...
...still to be at work in the weekly, Les Nouvelles Littéraires which castigated it as a "fad of ugliness-Sartre's books seem to be a transcription of the mental life of ignoble and tranquilly abnormal people . . . sickening mixture of philosophic pretentiousness, equivocal dreams, physiological technicalities, morbid tastes and hesitant eroticism . . . an introspective embryo that one would take distinct pleasure in crushing...
Here & there throughout the speech was a scattering of Churchillian invective: "morbid and reactionary Socialists," "hagridden by Socialist doctrinaries," "bitter, cast-iron Socialist dogmas," "the gloomy vultures of nationalization," "the heavy-footed State...