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...this point the sisters are still so inseparable--sharing hotel rooms, living together and even practicing together on Saturday morning--that there were not a whole lot of people who could parse favoritism. The crowd, enamored of its own cleverness, was giggling to shouts of "Williams" and "Serenus." It was there to celebrate a new era in women's tennis, the one that Richard, who wore a T shirt on Saturday with his own picture on it, had been predicting for 20 years. Even lunatics are right sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennis: Williams Wins! | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Ostensibly Faustus is the biography-in-progress of a fictitious German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, who was born in 1885 and died insane in 1940. The biography is being written during World War II by his lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case History of a Genius | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Priester sC.; Pickellaering, E. F. Lange '13; Meister Kricks, E. L. Hackes '14; Meister Klipperling, H. R. Habicht '13; Meister Lollinger, G. C. Heym uC.; Meister Bulla-Butaen, G. W. F. Hoehn '14; Meister Klotz George, H. F. Mayer 1G.; Konig Theodorus, E. St. J. Hubermann '18; Prince Serenus, A. B. Warren '15; Konigin Kassandra, C. N. Holman '18; Princessin Violandra, R. H. Campbell '16; Marshall Eubulus, R. N. Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST OF VEREIN PLAY | 10/31/1912 | See Source »

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