Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloody, innocent little story with an innocent little point. By the time Thomas Mann got through with it, it was about as innocent as a Gorgon's smile...
...TRANSPOSED HEADS - Thomas Mann-Knopf...
...Thomas Mann's latest book is dedicated to his good friend, Dr. Heinrich Zimmer, ex-Heidelberg Orientalist, with the words "Returned with thanks." Mann owed Zimmer his plot: a Hindu legend which Dr. Zimmer (who now lives in New Rochelle, N.Y.) had outlined in a lecture on Kali, the Mother Goddess of India, in Switzerland in 1938. The legend...
...Mann's two young men differ notably in physique and temperament. Shridaman has a noble head, a secondary body, Nanda a handsome body whose head is like the parsley on a roast. Shridaman is the religious, poetic, neurotic type, Nanda an amiable, simple sensualist. They like each other through their differences. For shy Shridaman, Nanda courts Sita "of the beautiful hips," and whose head is as empty as her body is luscious. The tragicomic troubles of this trio are just nicely begun where the original legend ends...
Radio spellbinders and Gerald Mann may cut into O'Daniel's support, but the tone of his announcement showed they faced a mighty task: "I shall take along with me the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, an inbred and inerasable common touch with the common man and I hope your unceasing prayers." He spoke of his "old, old friend the President," urged more and bigger pensions and fewer strikes. He ended with a poem...