Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mann on Mann...
...tell the whole story of Joseph and His Brothers, explains Author Mann, means going back 15 years to the day he reread the Bible story of Joseph, and beyond that to Mann's own development as a writer...
Most great writers leave the assertion of their place in literature to their disciples; some confidently speak out for themselves. One such was the late, great William Butler Yeats.*Another is literature's most famed contemporary exile. Novelist Thomas Mann. The February number of Atlantic Monthly published a speech by Author Mann, in which he speaks of himself and his work with confidence and authority...
...year ago Thomas Mann was appointed consultant in German literature for the Library of Congress. As a member of the staff. Librarian Archibald MacLeish asked Mann to make a speech before a small group in Washington, suggested that he discuss his great, four-volume, just-finished masterwork Joseph and His Brothers. (The final volume, Joseph the Provider, is slated for publication this fall.) Author Mann was at first "startled and disconcerted." Would it not, he asked, "seem terribly presumptuous, vain and egocentric" to talk of a mere novel in a time of world war? That would depend, he decided...
...Public Education Association of New York straightway stood aghast. Cried they: "We stand aghast!" And would the good Doctor pray explain, if that was the way he felt about progressive education, why Columbia maintained its progressive Bard College and Horace Mann-Lincoln School of Teachers College...