Word: winstone
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THOMAS MANN: THE MAKING OF AN ARTIST, 1875-1911 by Richard Winston Knopf; 325 pages...
...answer seems to be yes-just barely-on the basis of the rich evidence assembled by Richard Winston, editor of Letters of Thomas Mann and a distinguished translator, who died at 62 in 1979 after reaching only the 36th year in Mann's life...
...also seldom wrong; within two decades he was to be on the shelves with Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Even so, he knew at the start that his sense of invention could not equal his powers of observation. As Winston notes, "A symbolic fiction must be provided with the most realistic of foundations. This was an article of faith with Mann from the outset of his career." And where was he to find those foundations? In the lives of his colleagues and contemporaries, no matter how vulnerable they were; art was everything. Aschenbach, the enfeebled aesthete of Death in Venice...
...weather. Atlanta's major drawback, according to Places Rated, is its crime problem-it has a murder rate "that is twice the national average for metro areas." The Washington, D.C.Maryland-Virginia area scores second in all-round desirability, though it, too, suffers from a high crime rate. Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, N.C., is the third most livable area, largely because it scores well in most categories, with no serious drawbacks...
...order firm grew to represent 500 titles and adds 100 new works each year. Although the cassettes can be purchased, most of the company's 30,000 subscribers rent them at $6.50 to $16.50 for 30 days, then return the copies in postpaid cartons. The most requested books: Winston Chur chill's six-volume The Second World War, (148.5 hours, 99 cassettes; $116.50), Irving Stone's The Origin (30 hours, 20 tapes; $21) and the novels of Somerset Maugham, along with such current thrillers as Triple and Free Fall in Crimson...