Word: morbidness
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...DREAMER-Julian Green-Harper ($2.50). Another depressing, well-written psychological novel by a morbid author of the introspective school. FIVE SILVER DAUGHTERS-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). What the profit and loss of war and marriage did to five sisters; a post-War novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel...
...sunny Aix-en-Provence, the morbid were up at dawn one day last week, hurrying to the square in front of the ancient Hotel de Ville. Squads of blue-clad soldiers were already there, keeping the crowds as far as possible from an open space in the square's centre. Soon a rattling wagon drove up, loaded with red-painted timbers, ropes, boards. Trained like circus roustabouts, a crew of workmen sprang into action. In three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale...
...with greater justice be attributed to William Clark, the second in command) which he received through the patronage of Thomas Jefferson, we may be sure that the name of Merriwether Lewis would never have been recorded in history except as a moderately successful army officer beaten down by a morbid sense of solitude...
...less petered-out Faulknerian school of pessimism does not provide a very fertile field for the labors of a young novelist with the undeniable talent of William March. The author of "Come in at the Door" might very easily build a reputation as a writer of clever novels on morbid themes for the delectation of the sophisticated, as Black Mask horror stories are for the unsophisticated. He might also do far more; he might go beyond negation, beyond futilitarianism, beyond disgust with life as it is, to discover, and use as a horizon, life as it might be. "Come...
...Sirki takes Grazia with him, wrapped in his cloak. The impossibility of assaying the philosophic content, if any, of the play by Alberto Casella from which this picture was adapted does not diminish the charm of Death Takes a Holiday. It remains a serious poetic riddle, imperfect, thoughtful, delicately morbid...