Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Mann, German author in exile (see BOOKS), who has two sons in the U.S. Army, became a U.S. citizen (as did his wife), predicted the fall of his fatherland within a year: "I do not believe the German people and the German Army can stand another winter...
JOSEPH THE PROVIDER-Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter-Knopf...
Last week Thomas Mann published the final volume of his major work. Few novelists in the history of literature have planned a work of such scope and significance, and made their plans come true...
...novels are, rather than Shakespeare's plays-i.e., it is deliberate, sustained, careful (often tiresomely so), rather than spontaneous and overflowing with its own imaginative energy. The final volume's 606 pages bring the epic of Joseph to its end (Bible version, 21 pages; Mann's version, 2,005 pages). Few readers will want to know all of Mann's retelling of the story, the resuscitation of Egyptian and Hebrew thought and customs with which he surrounds it, the lessons for the modern world he derives from it. But no contemporary reader can afford...
This week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in effect, that prostitutes have as much right to vacations as anybody else. It reversed the Mortensen conviction by a vote of 5-to-4. Wrote Justice Murphy for the majority: "What Congress has outlawed by the Mann Act ... is the use of interstate commerce as a calculated means for effectuating sexual immorality. In ordinary speech, an interstate trip undertaken for an innocent vacation purpose constitutes the use of interstate commerce for that innocent purpose...