Word: manns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN (384 pp.)-Thomas Mann-franslafed by Denver Lindley-Knopf...
...satisfied simply with winning the Canadian 400-yd. medley relay championship, the Walter Reed Hospital Swim Club team (TIME, Apr. 18) set a world record besides. Splashing in perfect form through the University of McGill pool in Montreal, Mary Jane Sears, 15, Wanda Werner, 14, Shelley Mann, 17, and Susan "Dougie" Gray, 15, covered the distance in 4:30.5, nearly two seconds faster than the old record they had set themselves...
...America his vast popularity had waned, and critics were finding his later work "disappointing." He had been praised as one of the "world's great literary figures." But such evaluations are for posterity, which would judge Mann against his world contemporaries: Kipling, Conrad, Gorky, Gide, Joyce, Henry James, Shaw, Galsworthy, d'Annunzio. Mann himself was sensitively aware that one enters this hall of fame treading lightly. "There has been far too much talk about me," he wrote in 1951, adding: "It is not without a measure of embarrassment and dis may . . . that I note . . . that some people judge...
...measured against his contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
They were reading Mann once again in Germany. A new novel, a wryly ironic account of a gifted swindler (based on an old sketch), was having a great success. Last March his home town, Lübeck, which had once resented Buddenbrooks, made him an honorary citizen. In May in Stuttgart he opened the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory...