Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emmy Sonnemann GÖring, the buxom actress whom buxom Reich Marshal Her mann Gring married in 1935, arrived last week at Neustadt, near NÜrnberg...
Died. Georg Kaiser, 67, German novelist and playwright (From Morn to Mid night), who was expelled by the Nazis in 1933 from the Prussian Academy of Art (along with Thomas Mann and Franz Werfel); in Ascona, Switzerland...
...Thomas Mann, German author in ex, ile who last year became a U.S. citizen, wrote an article for the liberal monthly, Free World, also prophesied a black future for Germans in general, for German writers in particular: "To be a German author -what will that be? Back of every sentence ... in our language stands a broken . . . burnt-out people, bewildered about itself and its history . . . the fearful accumulation of hatred round about will not permit it to emerge from its boundaries-a people that can never show its face again...
...tries sadly to preserve himself and his reason against a practically worldwide onslaught. Grim psychiatrists, gadgets that "whir and whine and whiz," erratic servants, domineering women, unfriendly dogs, ghosts, foreigners -all are in league to crush the Thurber Male. This harried biped, like Joyce's Leopold Bloom or Mann's Hans Castorp, represents 20th-century Man. To Thurber's devotees, who rate him the greatest U.S. humorist since Mark Twain, his blankly exaggerated reports of their own qualms and misadventures are recognizable and (since nobody considers himself quite as badly off as a Thurber character) reassuring...
Joseph the Provider, by Thomas Mann, is the final volume of Mann's story of Joseph which tells in 2,005 pages what the Bible version tells in 21 pages. It contains Mann's usual solid, overlong discussions of history, religion and art, but its portraits of Pharaoh and Jacob are characterizations that the great novelist has never excelled...