Word: manns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EVERETT J. MANN Rochester...
...whack at her first love. (On one occasion she tore off a searing indictment of WPA in a spectacular series of articles.) But her multitudinous other interests took too much of her time. Gradually her newspapering simmered down to review ing books by her great and good friend Thomas Mann...
...Three times," says Mann, "at different stages of my life, have I lived under the prolonged tension of tasks which had a certain affinity to greatness." First great task was Buddenbrooks, a novel...
German bourgeoisie," written when Mann was 25. The second great task came 25 years later in The Magic Mountain, a study of "a friendly alter ego" in the midst of "European intellectual controversies." The third great task came in his middle 50s, when Mann found in the story of Joseph a theme embracing "the typical, the eternally human, eternally recurring, timeless-in short, the mythical...
...Bible story of Joseph was prehistoric, an all-too-brief, telescoped account of ages of prehistory. Soon Mann discovered that "the personal story of Joseph alone would not do, but that the primeval and original story, the history of the world, demanded to be included at least in perspective." For the prehistoric men & women of Genesis did not seem to share the modern idea that individuality is unique and self-centered. They were "human beings who did not quite know who they were, or who knew it in a more pious, deeply exact way than the modern individual-beings whose...