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Word: buddenbrook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann's first novel, little Hanno Buddenbrook draws a long slanting line under his family genealogy and when reproved for it haltingly explains, "I thought-I thought nothing else was coming." At 76, Author Mann fears that nothing else is coming for the civilized world, that humanity faces a long, black night of barbarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pope Oedipus | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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