Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McGregor, who believes that classrooms and real life are too far apart, should feel at home at Antioch. The college, founded by Horace Mann in 1853, had only 39 students when Engineer Arthur E. Morgan took over in 1921 with a few radical ideas to try out. Since then, students have spent half of their five years at Antioch on off-campus jobs. Morgan's famed "Antioch Plan" has boosted the student body to 1,100, extended the campus to 30 states and 400 offices, stores and factories, from the Washington Post to Macy's basement. Antioch students...
...promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, and a new unpublished novel, The Third Man, by Graham Greene...
...most significant part of Mr. Kahn's book comes in the foreword by Thomas Mann. The venerable German writer testifies "that I am painfully familiar with certain political trends. Spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency'. . .. that is how it started in Germany. What followed was fascism and what follows fascism...
Gordon Kahn doesn't make out too good a case against the Thomas Committee. Fortunately both Thomas Mann and J. Parnell Thomas...
...unusually large crowd rolled out of bed in time to watch the warm-up contest, wherein Holly Mann Lockhart nursed a baby carriage down the 1300 foot course in time to suare a first in the married seniors' event...