Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two periods in man's life, or at least in an artist's life, Thomas Mann claims, the productive, active period, and the didactic, reflective period. One does not pass from one to the other without mental pain. That is the problem of Gustav Achenbach who dies a rather ignominious death in Venice. This work, though morbid and bitter in tendency, shows Thomas Mann at the height of this career in handling words, in mastering the language. There are few pages in German literature comparable with some in "Death in Venice", particularly those which are transcribed from Plato...
...single one of our friends is arrested, we will pass from words to acts. If the Government wants war, it will have...
...Majesty King Ferdinand, long invalid and often sick to the point of death, made a dramatic gesture on the station platform at Bucharest, as he entrained to pass a period of recuperation, last week, at his hunting castle at Scrobesti...
...there are some advantages to the arrangement. Perhaps not until another three years have passed will they be privileged to view a Cambridge whose glory is its static calm; not for three years will they see the midsummer aura of languidness seize what is wont to be an alert and nervous university town; and not until then will they be able to enjoy in unrivalled possession the wide spaces of Mount Auburn Street where, safe from the deadly student motor car, they may amble at peace, buried is Harris and Bierwirth. Sophomores and Juniors, and even roaming. Seniors shall pass...
...sort to supplement the lectures. A great real is to be said in favor of this plan. At present the lectures and the reading cover approximately the same ground, and a somewhat complete knowledge of one, combined with an incomplete knowledge of the other frequently enables a man to pass a course with a grade, for example, of C. In the future, when the student finds that lectures and reading do not actually parallel each other, he will be faced by a condition demanding closer attention to both...