Word: mannes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Jackson has a plausible clinical grasp of the excruciating predicament of these people, and he prepares his revelation with conscientious care. But the book is not remotely comparable to Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, a calm, classic, immensely artful treatment of a similar theme...
...clues to reality. In each case Graves appears to believe that he has actually conjured up out of the past, by a kind of detective work of the imagination, real events-or as good as real events-which no one before him has really been able to fathom. Thomas Mann, in his wisdom, makes no such claim for his great and subtle Biblical Joseph and His Brothers. But in King Jesus Robert Graves, bright and solemn as a Quiz Kid, again implies that he has at last discovered the "valid explanation"-this time of the New Testament story...
...publicity handouts often bear the names of Comedian Zero Mostel, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Dancer Sono Osato, Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Composer Earl Robinson, Conductor Rudolph Ganz, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Novelist Thomas Mann. And ICCASP's stable of talent also embraces college professors, atomic scientists, advertising writers, book critics, and coveys of ballet dancers-classic or modern...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain examined by a strange trio of writers: Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend); Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and PM's Max Lerner...
...Thomas Mann: "My unvarying schedule - seven days each week," beginning after breakfast and ending at noon. His average daily output : a page of longhand...