Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know the method," wrote Edmund Burke, "of drawing up an indictment against an whole people." The prosecution at the 1946 Nuremberg trials kept Burke's dictum carefully in mind, but such scruples do not inhibit Producer-Director Stanley Kramer (On the Beach) and Scriptwriter Abby Mann, who also wrote the 1959 television play on which this movie is based. Ostensibly, four Nazi judges are on trial. Actually, by vigorous and frequent implication, the German people are on trial, and in a specious process that rivals in travesty the show trials conducted by the Nazis, they are found guilty...
...barbed wire run parallel to the West German Autobahn, the East Germans have built a huge billboard on their side of the line, on which is drawn a likeness of the great German writer and the slogan: "Anti-bolshevism is the underlying madness of the 20th century. - Thomas Mann...
...Mann often made such left-wing sounds. After he fled Germany in 1938, he was a supporter of all anti-Nazi groups, which often included Communists. His defense of the Communists for their anti-Nazi position was later used by them for their own purposes...
Seeking the origins of See-Spot-run, Walcutt finds them in an understandable reaction against 19th century U.S. primers. Children then gasped through sentences such as: "The multiplicity of considerations subsumed under the intransigeant prognostications of enthusiasm is considerable." In 1838 Reformer Horace Mann protested: "More than eleven-twelfths of all children in the reading classes of our schools do not understand the meanings of the words they read...
Rubinstein, whom his friend Thomas Mann called "that civilized man," is a product of the same Europe that Mann knew, a Europe that also nurtured such pianists as Benno Moiseiwitsch and Wilhelm Backhaus. Indeed, Rubinstein could have stepped out of a Mann novel. His enthusiasm for food, wines, cigars, paintings and fine editions is legendary, and his cultural interests extend far beyond his music. He reads omnivorously in eight languages, hobnobs more with writers than he does with musicians, occasionally regrets that he did not follow a youthful urge to become a novelist. His piano playing seems the consequence...