Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German-born Novelist Thomas Mann, who once found grievous fault with German intellectuals for not fighting Naziism ("This monstrous German attempt at world domination ... is nothing but a distorted and unfortunate expression of that universalism innate in the German character"), had decided that the Russians were pretty nice people, really. "When I remember how I myself was influenced by Russian writers and Russian culture, I can't hate them," he said. "I believe [they] are fundamentally disinclined toward...
...with the well-intentioned, the gullible, the confused, and salted with Communists. The committee was headed by Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long had red stars in his eyes. Besides such unsurprising names as Henry A. Wallace and Charles Chaplin, the roster included Physicist Albert Einstein, Novelist Thomas Mann. What was really surprising at this late date was that such supposedly well-informed people as Vassar President Sarah Gibson Blanding and Columbia Philosopher Irwin Edman had agreed to sponsor the Communists' show and ducked out only at the last minute...
Other families were ripped apart. Mrs. William Mann and one of her daughters were among the Penman's employees who stayed on the job. Her son, Harold, and another daughter sided with the pickets, who jeered at old friends and relatives at the plant gates...
...week, for a change, the portrait of Vincent hung in Lewenthal's Beverly Hills gallery, at the end of a long corridor, amid deep-red drapes, in candlelight subtly augmented by spotlights. The first night was an invitation show, intended for 500 closely screened art lovers, from Thomas Mann to Shirley Temple. For the next couple of days, anybody could look at it. Then it would go back to blaze in Mr. Goetz...
...presented himself with a couple of friends at the club's dressing room door, he was sternly rebuffed. "You can't come in," snarled an attendant. Freddie was nonplussed. While he and Denis held their reunion at the foot of the steps of the pavilion entrance, George Mann, M.C.C. captain, protested vigorously to the South Africans. Club Secretary Walter Mars was adamant. "I have no objection to professional boxers as a class," he said later, "but I had only to take one look at Mills and his friends to realize they are not the type we desire...