Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author displays an intellect profound, searching, inclusive, an artistry profound and subtle in all his works. These in translation have been Royal Highness, ironic comment on the life of kings; Death in Venice, three short stories; Buddenbrooks, monumental saga of the 19th Century. Son of a merchant, Herr Mann had to write secretly at first, functioning ostensibly as a life insurance salesman...
...sense all the persons of the story are symbols of certain ideas in the muddle that preceded the War. Peeperkorn personifies the strength, the glitter of royalty. What gives the metaphor power is the juxtaposition of death. Author Mann shows how men can adapt themselves to an environment of mortality by forgetting its existence. So countries squabble and chatter in the presence of catastrophe; so men, in the shadow of an enormous horror, pursue their silly and incongruous intrigues...
...appearance is more presentable than distinguished. Aged 52, he has a wife, six children. Ten years after publication, Buddenbrooks had gone through 50 editions. Its author remains, now as then, the follower of no master, the founder of no school, as important a writer as Germany possesses...
...bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo, indicate the rough-and-tumble, hardbitten, gun-toting memoir on saddle-leather that this book...
...GOLDEN COMPLEX?Lee Wilson Dodd?John Day ($1.75). Ably if without great acumen Author Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...