Word: manne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become almost a religion. "Philosophically," says Brazilian Jazzman Ronaldo Boscoli, "bossa nova is a frame of mind in the same way that Chaplin, Picasso, Prokofiev, Debussy and even Beethoven represented a new frame of mind. They were bossa nova in their time" Such U.S. jazzmen as Flutist Herbie Mann heard the new music, liked it and began putting it in their programs back home. ("Twist music," said Mann, ";is all show and promise -no inner fire. Bossa nova is just the opposite.") Another early convert was Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd, who heard bossa nova while on a State Department-sponsored...
...literary allusions. Encrusted with irony, hobbled by a pedagogue's inability to face life except in terms of art, Soby nevertheless fancies himself a secret worshiper of the wisdom of the body-for him symbolized by the bacchic visions that lured Gustav Aschenbach, the aging hero of Thomas Mann's famous novella, Death in Venice, to a debasing but idyllic passion for a beautiful young...
...Reading comprehension is low: the average U.S. twelfth-grader understands only 67% of what he reads in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins, only 28% of Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus. The rate for magazines is 78% for Modern Screen and Silver Screen, 54% for the Saturday Evening Post, 35% for TIME and 28% for the Atlantic...
...central clearinghouse for aid requests. Washington's lending agencies operated on their own, and the State Department, which was supposed to be in overall command, was plagued by a dizzying succession of Latin American policymakers. First in charge was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Mann, who stayed on after the Eisenhower Administration left. Next came New Deal Brain-Truster Adolph Berle, who resigned soon after the disastrous Cuban invasion. Then it was Robert Woodward, a career diplomat who lasted eight months before going to Spain as U.S. ambassador...
Long Silence. In 1933, along with Novelist Heinrich Mann, she was forced to resign from the academy for having signed a plea against the election of the Nazis to national office. In time, Germany's new masters let it be known that she was not to be exhibited again. With that, there descended upon her, as she put it, a long "silence." In 1940 Dr. Kollwitz died, and two years later, her grandson-another Peter-was killed on the Russian front. Her house in Berlin was bombed out, and so was the one she moved to in Nordhausen. Finally...