Word: carossa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DOCTOR GION-Hans Carossa-Ballou...
...CHILDHOOD-Hans Carossa-Cape & Smith...
...Child is father of the Man," said Poet Wordsworth. Author Carossa, a lung-disease specialist since 1903, seconds Wordsworth. "The things one has loved and done in the first ten years of life one will always love and always do." What he himself loved and did, told with classic deftness and grace, makes up a fairy tale that everybody, even psychoanalysts, will find strangely beautiful and true...
...journal of a German doctor who served on the Roumanian front in the winter of 1916. Primarily a physician, a man of peace, he never strikes the professionally martial note. Once an artillery officer pointed out to him where the Roumanians were supposed to be, lent Dr. Carossa his field-glasses. "Turning a little screw, I suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor the men's letters to their...
Author Hans Carossa, 52, Bavarian, is a specialist in lung diseases. He practices his profession in Seestetten, a village on the Danube. During the War he served as medical officer with the Bavarian infantry on several fronts, was finally wounded in April, 1918 at Nieppe Wood. A Roumanian Diary is his first book to be translated into English...