Word: mann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children, Heinrich von Brentano devoted many years of his life to the care of his widowed mother; a confirmed bachelor whose hobbies are collecting silver and old furniture for his apartments in Darmstadt and Bonn, he is a connoisseur of wines and highbrow conversation, an admirer of Thomas Mann. Says he of cocktail parties: "When I have to go to any of them. I tell my chauffeur not to switch off the gas, for I'll be back in a few minutes." A hater of demagogy, and himself a poor orator, he has a first-rate legal mind...
...home in Erlenbach, Switzerland, German-born Author Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, paused on the eve of his 80th birthday to look back on his first novel, Buddenbrooks, penned 54 years ago. The book was, submitted Mann modestly, "the finest success of my life." He recalled that it had sprung not from literary ambition but from a wish to amuse a few intimates. Said Mann: "Late in life, when a writer realizes that he is producing what is called 'art,' he tends to break off his contacts with society and turn into...
Typical of this naivete is Mike Mann's story of a high-school tennis player and his girl. Mann withholds few details of malt-shop and classroom courtship and consequently manages to portray a few scenes and feelings in high school life rather accurately. Mann's autobiography, however, begins to drool a little at the mouth; if he had left out much of the diary-writing at the end, he might have seemed much less involved and his story might have had more punch...
Playing in foursomes, Al Steinert combined with George Leness to win 2 1/2 points, George Mann and Ronnie Welburn took 3 points, and Harry Briggs and Bob Hoffsis, who was playing Volpone, won one point...
Wonderful, too, is Chayefsky's sense of the pathos of place-drab little row-frame houses, fluorescent luncheonettes, maverick taxis under the El pillars in the night city. And along with the places, Chayefsky and Director Delbert Mann reproduce precisely the life that goes on in them. The whole truth and nothing but the truth about the unattached male is told in one hurtingly funny shot of the stag line at a public dance hall. And the scenes of porch life and corner lounging ("So whatta we gonna do, huh?") are little epigrams of futility...