Word: mannes
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...colophon. He not only had an uncanny ability to discover new writers who went on to achieve permanence and literary prizes, but he also set and maintained the highest standards of design and craftsmanship in book production. His early lists emphasized Russian authors, but he also published Thomas Mann, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, D.H. Lawrence and Franz Kafka, among other eminent Europeans, and such U.S. writers as Willa Gather, H.L. Mencken, John Hersey and Samuel Eliot Morison, and Latin Americans Jorge Amado and Gilberto Freyre...
Execution of Justice by Emily Mann. Dan White was a Viet Nam paratrooper, then a policeman, a fireman and supervisor of San Francisco's Eighth District. On Nov. 27, 1978, he shot and killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first avowed homosexual elected to high city office. The trial of Dan White was a horrifying sensation; the verdict, guilty of voluntary manslaughter, was an outrage, especially to San Francisco's large population of gays. When White was released from prison this January, a little more than four years after the trial, some militant homosexuals called...
Compelling facts do not always cohere into riveting drama. But Mann, author of the social documentary play Still Life, has shaped the trial transcript and other relevant comments into antiphonal form: the lament of a hard-nosed cop will be answered by a raucous drag queen; the surreal anguish of Dan White (incarnated with creepy brilliance by John Spencer) will be followed by some wildly comic testimony that might have come from Carol Burnett's blooper barrel. Execution of Justice, directed by Oskar Eustis and Anthony Taccone, is a major work that seems to stand outside the perimeters...
...unrepentant radical Jacob, Paul Sparer provides a sense of guttering energy that is supposed to illuminate the hopes of the young. It does nothing of the kind. Brother and sister, husband and lover all perform in a declamatory style more appropriate to pageants than to plays. Moreover, Theodore Mann's direction takes the Bergers' zoo story and makes it sprawl inappropriately on the Circle in the Square's arena stage. Seen in the round, Odets is cruelly exposed; phrases that once seemed freshly coined on the streets of New York now appear to have been copied from...
...library include a first edition of Karl Marx's 1848 Communist Manifesto; practical books describing how to be shrewd businessman in the 18th century; old broadsides which were never bound and served as vehicles of protest; business periodicals which record the social life of past generations; and even "Thomas Mann's renowned treatise in which he defines the doctrine of the balance of trade...