SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco, Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, Spiegel Online Nov 12, 2009
SPIEGEL: Accountants make lists, but you also find them in the works of Homer, James Joyce and Thomas Mann. Eco: Yes. (Harper's Magazine)
Novel zooms in on noted photographers life (2) Nov 10, 2009
Liouba also convinced Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Georges Clemenceau, and Eleanor Roosevelt to fight for Halsman s successful release. Although the Austrian Dreyfus Affair, was the talk of Europe, little was known of the case in America. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Officials, businesses tour AMSA in Marlborough Nov 7, 2009
About 60 visitors toured literature classrooms packed with volumes from Homer, John Steinbeck and Thomas Mann; computer labs where students learn computer-assisted design and the programming language Java; and a math class where sixth-graders learned algebra. It was the first time AMSA, which opened in 2005, had hosted the annual event. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
Costa Living: Hand me those pliers, I'm on vacation Oct 7, 2009
I also plan to spend that third day recuperating on the couch reading something incredibly long like Thomas Mann s The Magic Mountain. No, I won t read that. (Westford Eagle, MA)
Incivility Reigns in Sensative U.S.... Sep 16, 2009
And according to Thomas Mann a race relations expert at the Brookings Institution Congressman Wilson's comments added additional fuel to the fire as he noted in an interview with NBC Nightly News, "For African-American members of the U.S. House this was a conservative white southerner going after the first African-American President in a highly public and disrespectful fashion.". Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Speaks Out. (Suite101.com)
a new Somerset Maugham bio Sep 10, 2009
Other patients who had sought to recapture their youth in this manner were: Charlie Chaplin, No l Coward, Thomas Mann and Pope Pius XII.. Later, apparently revitalised by his treatment, the most widely read English writer since Dickens was observed by an elderly lady on Vevey railway station trying to play hide-and-seek with Alan Searle, the last of his secretary-companions. (Harper's Magazine)
Amit Chaudhuri explores desire, ambition, power in ‘The Immortals’ Aug 23, 2009
Q. This novel has been compared to Thomas Mann s Buddenbrooks. How does that strike you. (Boston Globe)
Alex Ross: The music of fictional composers. Aug 17, 2009
Thomas Mann, driven into exile by the Wagner-loving Hitler, decided to dismantle the myth of the Tragic Artist in Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverk. hn as Told by a Friend, published in 1947. (New Yorker)
IN MY LIBRARY: JOEL KLEIN Aug 9, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009 Last Update: 05:40 AM EDT. hide topics THIS WEEK'S HOT TOPICS. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Wilhelmine China? Jul 30, 2009
"). Given the definite room for friction associated with China's growing importance in the international system, that feeling of ambivalence is rather unfortunate - ideally, one would like to know more specifically whether a raging bull or a youthful yet peaceful lamb is currently entering the China shop. What, then, is the truth of the matter? Is war inevitable? Essentially, any meaningful analysis that goes beyond casual comparisons will have to factor in all three "levels of analysis" central... (Asia Times Online)
interview with Joseph ONeill Jul 14, 2009
A full-throated, unapologetic defense of the virtues of Western Civ in which "elite" is not and never should be a dirty word this inspiring exploration of high art and high ideals is divided into three sections: The first looks at the life of Riemen's great hero Thomas Mann as a model for the examined life. The second imagines a series of conversations from turning points in European intellectual history, populated with the likes of Socrates, Nietzsche and others. (Harper's Magazine)
Old dog's new tricks May 30, 2009
" James's writing career began in earnest in 1972 as a television critic for London's The Observer, where he says he soon became unpopular for writing his reviews at great pace in an open-plan office, laughing out loud at his own jokes. Has it got easier or harder over the years? "Well, Thomas Mann, he said - and this is great, this is writing - he said a writer is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other people ... "Thomas Mann? Great guy. At school with me," he quips, pausing as... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Novel offers personal snapshot of photographer (4) May 2, 2009
Liouba also convinced Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Georges Clemenceau, and Eleanor Roosevelt to fight for Halsman s successful release. Although the Austrian Dreyfus Affair was the talk of Europe (Sigmund Freud even wrote a paper about it in 1931), little was known of the case in America. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
We're at the center of the universe - unless we're not Apr 19, 2009
He's a clean, swift writer, as likely to quote John Updike, Thomas Mann, or Friedrich Nietzsche as he is Richard Feynman or Isaac Newton. And this book is very briskly paced; in less than 300 pages, he left me dizzy. (Boston Globe)
A Nervous Splendor Mar 30, 2009
The publishers of The House of Wittgenstein compare the novelistic richness of its style to Thomas Mann s first novel, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, which was published in 1901 ... Thomas Mann traced the decline of the Buddenbrooks through four generations, but the Wittgensteins rose and fell within the span of two. (New Yorker)
Obama pursues agenda despite bonus brouhaha Mar 22, 2009
"Absolutely it was a bad week for the president," said Thomas Mann, a Brookings Institution congressional scholar. "But, he's not someone to shy away from an ambitious agenda. He's aiming very high and he's not going to trim his ambitions in response to this.". (USA Today)
Cantata Singers explore Britten, and beyond Mar 17, 2009
Death pervades the Thomas Mann novella on which the opera is based, and there is a haunted, restless quality to the music. Percussion figures heavily in the score, which contains some of Britten's most unusual sonorities. (Boston Globe)
Obama taking big political risk with budget Mar 10, 2009
"The talk that this is veering left is wildly off base," said Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution. "If you consider dealing seriously with health care as lurching to the left, if you consider trying to move to a low-carbon economy as veering to the left, if you consider returning to Clinton tax rates for upper-income households as veering to left, then I suppose it is.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Obama officials sharpen tone on race Mar 1, 2009
There is a risk in talking about it too much, said Thomas Mann, a political scientist at the Brookings Institution, in an e-mail. During his campaign, Obama made an explicit decision not to emphasize race and did so only when it threatened to damage his candidacy. (MSNBC -- Race)
A daunting 'Die Ägyptische Helena' Feb 8, 2009
" The problems begin with the title role, which requires a soprano capable of singing Strauss's soaring melodies while plausibly representing the world's most beautiful woman. But coming to grips with Hofmannsthal's libretto - a fanciful confection about Helen of Troy's post-Trojan War reconciliation with her cuckolded husband Menelaus - is an even more daunting challenge. An important literary figure in his own right, Hofmannsthal never considered himself a junior partner to Strauss and... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
