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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mocking Genius. Mann has chosen no conventionally flashy music-hall prodigy for his case history of a genius. Adrian Leverkühn, as his friend Zeitblom remembers him, was a brilliant, mocking, arrogant schoolboy who, even in his early teens, was constantly throwing off deep remarks. Sample: "Technique and comfort-in that state one talks about culture but one has not got it. Will you prevent me from seeing in the homophone-melodic constitution of our music a condition of musical civilization-in contrast to the old contrapuntal polyphone culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case History of a Genius | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Chosen on the basis of their grade in these trials and the regularity of their attendance at rehearsals, the successful choralists will also travel to Bowdoin on December 4. Two days later they will join the Bowdoin Glee Club in a concert at Portland, Maine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 70 From Choral Society Chosen to To Sing 'Messiah' | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...even smaller number of girls will be chosen to sing carols with the University choral group in Memorial Church at Christmastime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 70 From Choral Society Chosen to To Sing 'Messiah' | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...only specific action by the Committee was the appointment of a three-man Food Sub-Committee to meet with the dining room manager of the Union. Chosen for this suggestion group were Douglas W. Patterson '52, Robert D. Mohlman '52, and Benjamin F. MacDonald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Has First Meeting | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...members of the Union Committee were chosen to represent a wide cross-section of the country. First nominated by the proctors in their respective halls, they were actually selected by the three Freshman Deans and the Secretary of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Has First Meeting | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

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