Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Explain, please...
...Rose shuns name authors ("children don't care who wrote the story"), never mixes fantasy with fact ("some authors have brownies explain about stalagmites; they think it helps the children, but it confuses them''). She is careful not to tell her readers what to think ("we tell them how to make some gadget, but we never say it's fun"). Above all, she never slants her pieces to please parents or teachers because "there are more kids [than teachers]; that's our whole policy...
...passing Sever Hall, Dunlea said he suddenly felt ill. He was found sitting on the inside steps by some students who summoned an ambulance. Dunlea's wife said that she was not aware that he was in Cambridge at the time, and she could not explain his sudden collapse...
...senile wreck at the end. Perhaps the best and most readable section of Faustus describes Adrian's years in a rustic Bavarian retreat near Munich. Mann's description of Munich's cultural and pseudo-intellectual crowd between wars, and their stiff-necked, neurotic Kultur helps explain how an Austrian fanatic got them to eat out of his hand...
Adrian's music was modern and daring, brought him the fame the Devil promised. But as the 24 years come to an end, Adrian's sanity does too. In a terrible nightmarish scene, Mann describes the gathering where Adrian crazily tries to explain his last and greatest composition to his friends. By that time, the Devil had already claimed...