Word: mann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Owen not only accompanied the team on almost every trip, said angry Judge Streit, but also allowed the local Boosters Club to subsidize players. One of the players, William Mann, said that he had received at least $300 from the club; another, All-American Eugene Melchiorre, told how club representatives would pass out $10 to $15 to players whenever the team went on a trip. The club recruited players, paid their tuitions, and lent them money. To all this Owen acquiesced, thus giving "official university sanction to [the players'] moral debasement...
...Thomas Mann (a U.S. citizen who writes in German and is Englished by one of the world's best translators, Mrs. H. T. Lowe-Porter) holds gloomy views about the world's future, but suppressed the gloom in his new book. The Holy Sinner was an urbane story about a child born of incest who becomes pope, a medieval tale that Mann embellished with touches of Freud and assorted ironic mockeries. Another prophet of gloom stuck to his pessimism. In The Age of Longing, Arthur Koestler saw a cynical Europe doomed to war, unwillingly tied...
...Boris Aronson effectively catches the mood of the play, though the lack of any partition between the street and the interior of the house is at times confusing. Director Daniel Mann does admirably with a script which calls only for various levels of emotional acting. It is unfortunate that a playwright of Tennessee Williams' stature should confine himself to one aspect of life so exclusively that he fails to achieve even a semblance of true realism...
...editors struck one false note by devoting half a page to a two-line fragment of a letter from Thomas Mann, which consists of a polite refusal to submit an article. This might be construed as a gag, except that Mann's name appears on the cover and the table of contents, a summary of his distinctions appears in the Advocate Notes, and the author of the foreword proffers him "Our gracious acknowledgment"--a pretty way to put it--for his (relatively passive) part in making the issue possible. To push a famous name so blatantly is irritating and jarringly...
...Little of Winthrop House edged out Lowell's Jim Downey and Ronnie Berman for individual honors. These three were followed by Guido Ferera of Eliot, Funster Larry Mann, John Rooney of Leverett, Adams' Al Joyce, and Goodwin Cooke of Winthrop...