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...Ode to Life. Thomas Mann's literary world is one of catastrophic oppositions. As Author Mann developed, the problem took many forms-the artist v. the bourgeois, the criminal v. society, Nietzsche v. Goethe, disease v. conformity, Asia v. Europe, music v. reason. On one occasion, Mann was able to wed his antitheses into a higher reality. The moment came in the lyric, mysterious "snow scene" in The Magic Mountain, in which substance and accidents, skies and devils dissolve in the "white darkness" of the snow. It was one of the really astounding moments in modern literature...
Only a pampered husband, swathed in editorial cotton wool, could possibly have written the "acid ode" on U.S. wives . . . I'm afraid Editor Fischer wanted a lot of free publicity for himself and his magazine, but hit on a poor means of getting it. Why doesn't he cut himself loose from his wife's apron strings and find out firsthand what American men and women are really like, and then write his piece...
...feminine protests began to pour in last week, Jack Fischer, married these 19 years,* allowed that his acid ode might have been "an unfortunate lapse." Said he in a somewhat cowed tone: "Believe me, certainly no lady in my family, and no lady of my acquaintance even, fits the description...
Allen R. Grossman read the Class Poem, "Coming Upon the Azores." Following these ceremonies, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. '55, First Class Marshall, presented the colors of his class to the freshman representatives. George E. Vaillant '55 of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., read the Class Ode...
Allen R. Grossman read the Class Poem, "Coming Upon the Azores." Following these ceremonies, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. '55, First Class Marshall, presented the colors of his class to the freshman representatives. George E. Vaillant '55 of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., read the Class Ode, which the class sang under the direction of Class Chorister Jonathan Steinberg...