Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperate stolidity of animals who hear the hunter coming toward the trap. In the U. S. two committees were trying to get them out. One was the Emergency Rescue Committee, which claims to have brought to the U. S. since last July some 50 writers-in-exile, including Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden, Leonhard Frank. The other was the Exiled Writers Committee, a sprout of the leftist-controlled League of American Writers. The two committees seemed to be getting in each other's hair...
Modestly, the Exiled Writers Committee disclaimed all but a small share in Feuchtwanger's getaway. In the escape of other writers the Exiled Writers Committee was only too ready to claim a share. Such were grave Heinrich Mann (Thomas' brother and author of more than a dozen novels) and Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh). As they bumped over the rough autumn waves from Lisbon a few weeks ago, the two novelists hugged themselves over their narrow escape from the Nazis. One day out from...
Backing up Burwell come Joe McLoughlin, Bob Burns, Mal MacKenzie, Bob Jay, Kay Rogers, John Sopka, Paul Cook, and Joe Scott. Yale's hopes rest on Bill Bird, Mal Main, and Henry Mann, while Princeton's strength lies in Ed Burrows and Dave Little, son of the Master of Adams House...
...Schuster editorial scheme was to concentrate on letters that reflect "the great personalities, the great events, the great ideas of history." The anthology opens with the somewhat acrid correspondence of Alexander the Great and Darius III (circa 334 B.C.), closes with Thomas Mann's warning to his age. St. Paul counsels the quarrelsome Corinthians ("the greatest of these is charity"). The Younger Pliny is baffled by the early Christians ("if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects...
...Beloved Returns," based on an episode in the life of Goethe, is: 1. A new novel by Thomas Mann. 2. A movie with Paul Muni now in production. 3. An anti-war play by Robert Sherwood. 4. A fabulous mural painted for Hitler's study. 5. A bedroom farce doing a big business in London...