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...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...
...week's end the President of France, René Coty, made one of his infrequent departures from Olympian impartiality. In a speech he endorsed Faure's program for a peaceful "interdependence" in North Africa, condemned "abominable violence" by Frenchmen, and attacked Arab agitators from "certain foreign countries...
...Crimson team by taking second with a 44.0 clocking, and freshman Karim Khan tied for third with the Big Green's Dick Perkins in 44.4. Further down the list were perennial entrants Al Sise '28 in 12th place, ski coach Graham Taylor '49 in 15th, and former Olympian Alec Bright '19 in 41st place...
...Pittsburgh's Arnie Sowell beat Olympian Mai Whitfield and set a games record for the 800-meter...
...painter. To the Kerr household, he is Fatuncle, a lifelong, irresponsible nuisance who only comes around to cadge money and food. When his 16-year-old niece Celia goes to pose for him, she meets a double man who divides and finally conquers her loyalties. On one of his Olympian binges, or gnawing a chicken wing, he seems like another Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. But behind the regal belch hides the lonely and fiercely honest old artist. He mercilessly paints Celia in a cage, an adolescent waif trapped behind the narrow bars of parental thou-shalt-nots. At novel...