Word: manns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writers also seem to have an inclination to assume a sense of mission (to preserve the national culture against totalitarian rule). Thomas Mann in his California villa remained the embodiment of German culture, resisting the barbarism of Goebbels and Co. Solzhenitsyn, though not published in Russia in the last ten years before he was expelled, still had a sense of speaking for the people, representing the national values against the neo-Stalinist pragmatism of Brezhnev. Similarly Czech writers, particularly Kundera. Vaculik and Kohout sensed the necessity to remain in their country. In touch with their people, even in this period...
...Thomas Mann and His "Good Scores"; a lecture by Michael Steinberg; Quincy Dining Room...
...Ulrike Meinhof. They also wanted authorities to annul all verdicts handed down against demonstrators who had violently protested the death by prison hunger strike of a gang member named Holger Meins. One result of the violence was the murder of West Berlin Supreme Court President Giinter von Drenk-mann. It is suspected that he was killed in retaliation for Meins' death (TIME, Dec. 9). Unless the six prisoners were released, provided with $52,200 in cash and flown out of West Berlin on a special jet, Lorenz, according to the note, would be executed...
Screenplay by ABBY MANN and ERNEST TIDYMAN
Stop! Enough! The other area of some promise is so-called photorealism. Robert Mann, a Californian whose paintings are on view at the Staempfli Gallery, has studied vintage photographs but does not refer to them when he paints. His aim is to recapture an era and a place: rural Ontario, where he grew up. The people are "a memory-they've floated back into this situation one more time." Their slightly stylized figures produce a kind of stage-front scrim against a photographic backdrop. The results have a peculiar authority, as hard to account for as it is easy...