Word: manns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guinea pig of progressive education had become a fat house pet. Last week Columbia University's Teachers College decided to close down Manhattan's combined Horace Mann-Lincoln Schools...
Luther v. Thomas Mann...
...Thomas Mann's opinion of Martin Luther (TIME, Jan. 7) is of little importance; but . . . Mr. Mann knows perfectly well Luther was referring to the pillaging, ravaging, raping and murdering rabble and he was incensed that honest peasants had been forced into the devilish confederacy...
American Genre. Novelist Thomas Mann recently proclaimed Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment "the greatest detective novel of all time" (TIME, Jan. 21). It was a considerable tribute, and there was considerable doubt among detective-story addicts whether Dostoevsky deserves it. Some critical minds which are addicted to detective stories believe that today more craftsmanship goes into mystery novels than into all other kinds of novel combined. Moreover, successful murder still requires imagination, as much as in the days of Edgar Allan...
...This Silence? Mann admits a lifelong debt to four great writers: Goethe, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky. Of Goethe ("the molder of a majestic personal culture") and of Tolstoy ("the primitive epic force"), Mann has often written with "enthusiastic eloquence." But he could never bring himself to write a line about Nietzsche (who suffered from creeping paralysis) or Dostoevsky (an epileptic). "Why," asks Mann, "this evasion . . . this silence...