Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mann, Spengler and Stresemann. The son of the House of Mann stubbed his toe against life when his father died. The family business had to be sold at a loss in 1890. He moved with his mother to Munich, where she insisted that he must work at something. He sold fire insurance, writing novels by stealth until fame came. Like his great contemporary in philosophy, Oswald Spengler, his genius was fired most completely by contact with Mediterranean culture, and he repaid Italy with Der Tod in Vene dig (Death in Venice...
...Kaiserdom and Conquest. Mann's War-time essays, Reflections of a Non-political Man, show that he shared the general will to spread kultur by the bayonet. Like Stresemann he changed his whole political philosophy after defeat. Both men have been flayed as opportunists. Last week in strongly Royalist Munich, where Republican Mann still lives, news of the Nobel Prize was frigidly received by the newspapers, given scant space, small praise...
Professor E. A. Milne, of Oxford University, spent several weeks at the Harvard Observatory, delivering two lectures and holding many conferences with the staff on subjects of theoretical astrophysics. Dr. Albrecht Unsold, of the University of Munich, spent some weeks at the Harvard Observatory, holding special conferences on line contours and in photometric studies, using Harvard photographs of the structure and distance of the Coal Sack in the southern Milky...
Camillo von Klenze '86, professor at the University of Munich, will come to Harvard to lecture at some time during the second half-year, it has been announced by Kuno Francke, emeritus professor of German Culture and honorary curator of the Germanic Museum, where Professor von Klenze will lecture...
...visiting professor is now at Munich, where he teaches American culture and civilization. Before he took that post he had held the place of professor of German at Cornell during 189-93, at the University of Chicago for the years 1893-1906, and at Brown...