Word: mannes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funeral will take place Friday in New York City, where Shelton, a New Jersey native, attended the Horace Mann School. No services will be held locally, but Jack Sabhatino. Shelton's Law School advisor, said some students were considering a memorial fund for tenants' rights, an issue that Shelton had been concerned about in recent years...
...Horace Mann, Shelton was widely respected for his intellectual talents and leadetship, though classmates said he shifted drastically in his political beliefs...
Before graduating from Horace Mann in 1976. Shelton founded an annual softball marathon that still raises several thousand dollars a year for cancer research. He also did volunteer work for the World Hunger Organization...
...shelves with Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Even so, he knew at the start that his sense of invention could not equal his powers of observation. As Winston notes, "A symbolic fiction must be provided with the most realistic of foundations. This was an article of faith with Mann from the outset of his career." And where was he to find those foundations? In the lives of his colleagues and contemporaries, no matter how vulnerable they were; art was everything. Aschenbach, the enfeebled aesthete of Death in Venice (1913), for example, was modeled after Gustav Mahler, who was dying at the time...
...fitting that this biographical fragment ends with Death in Venice. In that work Mann learned to treat death, madness, self-destruction at the level of genius. Yet when the artist stood up from his desk to talk about his work, he could barely survive his own respectability. For, as The Making of an Artist subtly reveals, Mann may have loved his Latin mother, but he became his Teutonic father. Winston might have concluded the life with out edging any closer to the man. At 36, Mann was complete. -By Melvin Maddocks