Word: morbidness
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...poetry he says "I know how this stuff came into existence . . . and if I were obliged, not to define poetry, but to name the class of things to which it belongs, I should call it a secretion; whether a natural secretion, like turpentine in the fir, or a morbid secretion, like the pearl in the oyster. I think that my own case, though I may not deal with the material so cleverly as the oyster does, is the latter; because I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health, and the experience, though pleasurable, was generally agitating...
...issue of Scribners, improving, as before, the general tone of the copy. The story, "Give Us a Prescription, Doctor," is laid in a hospital in the Southwest. From amidst a faint susurrus of hospital noises, broken English, and the squawling of a patient's radio, ideas emerge with a morbid and startling clarity; much as one may question Mr. Hemingway's philosophy, he cannot help admiring the technical ability and power which enables him to present it so vigorously and subtly. In the present instance, however, the effect is somewhat destroyed by a presentation of that philosophy slightly more explicit...
...principal danger of the situation seems that these people are completely unable to see themselves in any other light than that of an aggrieved power struggling for noble ideals against a world of political, financial and commercial conspirators. This feeling has reached the stage of morbid hysteria...
Brilliant, morbid and exciting, M is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929 (the perpetrator of which, Butcher Kuerten, was executed). It was written, like most of Director Lang's productions, by his wife. Thea von Harbou. It is all in German, with fairly adequate English subtitles superimposed. Peter Lorre distinguishes himself in a magnificent cast by his haunting performance as the murderer. Good shot: the pudgy young man after seeing himself described as a maniac, peering into a mirror and stretching his mouth to see if he looks crazy...
Whatever the spirit that paints Mrs. Bush's pictures, it has a morbid mind. Peace, most interesting canvas on view last week, showed the face of a drowned girl floating in water sprinkled with flowers, while over it hovers a weird bird with a very long beak and a tightly curled tail...