Word: manns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ESSAYS OF THREE DECADES (472 pp.)-Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter-Knopf...
When Thomas Mann's first great novel, Buddenbrooks, was published in 1901, there still lived in Germany a nonagenarian schoolteacher who had talked not only with young Leo Tolstoy, but with old Goethe himself. Mann, who has published 36 books in his 72 years of life, cites this old schoolteacher as the 20th Century's last physical link with the great world of Goethe, Beethoven, Mozart. But he does not suggest that that world's principal literary descendant today is Thomas Mann himself...
...Dickie Vernon White Plains Theodore F. Wolff '50 Evelyn laSon New York John F. Wood '50 Anne Jeffrey Endicott Thomas S. Woods, 3rd '50 Laura Wilson Radcliffe Thornton W. Willett '50 Doris Chambers Bryn Mawr Hastings K. Wright '50 Heloise Pike Colby John E. Wyat '50 Winne Mann Smith Robert M. Young '49 Hannah Blanfox Hunter N. T. Zervas '50 Jacie Van Blarcom Mass. State Melvin L. Zurier '50 Charlotte Braidy Bangor Harold Zirin '50 Joanne Cohan Connecticut
...Jack H. Mann '50; Winthrop House; Government P.B.H. settlement house committee, A.V.C...
...Brod recalls that when Kafka read to friends the opening chapters of The Trial (the story of a man crucified by inches), they laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks, and Kafka himself laughed so hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living...