Word: morbidness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military-aid progam with an air of urgency and inviolability. Said Acheson : "The Soviet Union today maintains the largest peacetime military force in the history of the world . . . The combination of ... a huge aggressive force on one side and admittedly inadequate defense forces on the other has created a morbid and pervasive sense of insecurity in Western Europe. The fear is justified. The danger is real, however much some may try to argue it out of existence...
Night Unto Night (Warner), according to Psalms 19,* sheweth knowledge of the Lord. In Hollywood hands, the biblical text becomes a pretext for showing off an extraordinary amount of morbid, flowery talk about the nature of life, death and love...
Fortitude Interludes. Contrary to the common belief that Nelson was a "very delicate man," the best evidence is that he was unusually robust. He had a morbid fear of serious illness, and it made him a self-centered hypochondriac; his letters swarmed with such remarks as: "I ... venture to say [that] a very short space of time will send me to that bourne from which none return . . ." To most of his seamen he was the kindest, gentlest hero imaginable; to his Sea Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna...
...scorn him when he gets to be an executive, but welcome him back to the fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes, is not out of place in Bendix' parlor. Moviegoers may wish they had stayed at home around the radio, where someone could keep a hand on the tuning knob...
...hero of Erostratus expresses his morbid hatred of his fellows through a completely senseless murder. The longest and most ambitious story is The Childhood of a Leader. This is Sartre's cold dissection of a French industrialist's son, showing how his social and sexual inadequacies led him to the assuagements of anti-Semitism and a superpatriotism...