Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...path. He has carried local colour to its reductio ad absurdam. The significance of the theme is lost in pages and pages of interesting but unnecessary detail. Herr Mann is probably assured of literary immortality. But it is sad that he should survive, not as a great mind, not as a great artist, but as a source-book for future historians...
...professionally. Walter Lippmann and Professor Abbott have touched upon it philosophically. Realistic novelists have for several decades past been turning it to hand in one form or another. Still the impression persists that only the surface phenomena have been observed, and that in a chosen analysis of the mind of the public, individually and collectively, lies much that is illuminating with regard to American civilization...
...shrewd, hard-working builders of the family fortune. One of the finest episodes of the book is the one where Senator Buddenbrook finds by chance a philosophical book and becomes enchanted by it-no name is given, but it is unmistakably Schopenhauer's pessimism, entering upon the tired mind of the last member to a hitherto romantic, Victorian, uncomplicated tribe. For, last he is, the last grown-up at least. His son dies as a boy; we accompany him to school, suffer with him the heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that he is heir to. But the first serious...
There was first to follow "Royal Highness," which had a lighter air and more elegance than any of Mann's previous works. It reflected the happy time of courtship and marriage. Then dramatic sketches and short stories, and then an exception to the positive turn of mind; "Death in Venice." Knopf, New York...
...brought further progress in the transition of the author's creative tendencies. It turned his mind to history and the affairs of state. "Frederic and the Great Coalition" is more than a fascinating historical sketch, is a psychological treatise of a historical subject, only too rare in biographical writing. The bulky volume. "The Reflections of an Unpolitical Mind" was the first attempt in Germany to wield into a unit the political ideas and aspirations of Prussia and the philosophical and artistic "Weltanschauung" of the country of "poets and dreamers...