Word: mannes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe enrollment figures this summer show a trend toward English reading courses, with a secondary preference for Social Relations. Statistics Wednesday placed Comparative Literature 65, Proust, Joyce, and Mann, in the lead with 17 'Cliffedwellers in tow, while English 24a, Shakespearean tragedy, was a close second with...
...intricacies of various female minds were probed for a possible explanation of these trends. Typical students interviewed agreed Comparative Literature 65 was "a hard course." This phrase was interpreted to mean the lectures are conducted on a high intellectual plane and reading assignments are relatively long. Proust, Joyce, and Mann have great appeal as modern writers, and the lecturer, Associate Professor Harry T. Levin '33 was termed "impressive...
...outline, the story resembles Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: an aging writer goes down to the Italian seaside to rest in the sun. Tabori takes this theme, twists it around to fit a modern situation and his own ends. The aging writer is Stefan Farkas, noted Hungarian dramatist. His train reaches San Fernando one day in the summer of 1943. He has been told that San Fernando will be "safe" for months to come. He wants a vacation and a rest. The war has made him nervous...
...Thomas Mann, after a chest operation at a Chicago hospital, was reported "doing very well...
...five years. Groucho is the rattily natty new manager of a swank North African hotel in which the Nazis have cached French art treasures. Chico knows all about the rival lines of camels, yellow and checkered, which take tourists around. Harpo is valet to the hyperpunctilious Nazi (Siegfried Ru-mann) who is trying to escape to South America with...