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...Mann in 1930: “Can a people old and wise and highly cultured, with a long emotional and intellectual experience behind it . . . conform to the wish-image of a primitive, pure-blooded simplicity, artless...
...For climate scientist Michael Mann, the ability to cover the effects of climate change is being tested sooner than expected....
...One of the strengths of the opera is how much Britten kept of Thomas Mann’s original novella, on the surface the semi-autobiographical story of Aschenbach, an ageing writer, and his obsession with a boy...
...An ebb and flow that has been continuing for centuries: this is where Liszt used to stay (and invited Wagner to perform the premiere of the first act of Die Walküre), where Thomas Mann honeymooned and where...
...Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, ‘Poor Economics: Barefoot Hedge-fund Managers, DIY Doctors and the Surprising Truth about Life on Less than $1 a Day’ (2011) Favourite: Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann....
...This year is the 100th anniversary of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Set in a Davos sanatorium, the book re-creates the world before the first world war on a miniature scale....
...Lots have been obsessed with the act of painting (Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray) and composing (Thomas Mann in Doctor Faustus). That interest isn’t reciprocated....
...Four days later, in Munich, Heinrich’s niece (and Thomas Mann’s daughter) Erika staged her satirical “Peppermill” cabaret....
...Letter in response to this article: Thomas Mann’s warning echoes for Germans today / From Simon Crosby, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, UK...
...“Anderson really has no time to lose any more,” said Thomas Schweppe, a Frankfurt-based shareholder adviser, adding that management needed to tackle the issues swiftly to prevent making matters worse....
...Mann, Richard Strauss and the artist Carl Spitzweg, Munich residents all....
...Mann’s warning echoes for Germans today / From Simon Crosby, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, UK...
...But with its efficiently stylish filmmaking and brutal takedowns, Charles and Thomas Guard’s film is also simply a gripping clockwork mechanism of vengeance-is-mine storytelling (complete with era-appropriate...
...Catherine Mann, one of the BoE’s more hawkish policymakers, argued this week that more rate rises were needed to curb the inflationary threat....
...The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann’s classic novel set in Davos against the backdrop of a deadly disease and an impending world war, was published almost a century ago....
...Some writers become gloomier with age — Hardy, Ibsen, Beckett — while others — Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf — kick up their heels and indulge in transcendent play....
...(In a 2015 Commons debate of the Housing and Planning Bill, Panayi was described by MP Gareth Thomas as “an example of the worst landlords in London”.)...
...Earlier this week at the Davos World Economic Forum, I dined with fellow attendees at the Hotel Schatzalp, a former sanatorium that featured in Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain....
...“By far the biggest issue . . . will be inflation versus financial stability,” said Thomas Pugh, economist at RSM, who thinks that the flare-up of risks will lead the MPC to “press pause earlier”....
...Even further west, Against the Edge, a Frieze off-site programme by Jay Ezra Nayssan, puts the work of Nicola L in the former Pacific Palisades home of the exiled German author Thomas Mann....
...Later, the Agnellis, the Siemens, Thomas Mann and Aldous Huxley, who wrote his first novel in Forte, holidayed here, ushering in decades of glitz....
...Thomas Mann charts the decline of a grand family in Buddenbrooks, as does Anton Chekhov in The Cherry Orchard, but each drama is over a century old....
...Literary cyclists may care to stop briefly at the grave of the novelist Thomas Mann, who made Kilchberg his home in his last days, before aiming for the Sihl and leaving views of Lake Zürich and its sprawling...
...Mann, Hedda Hopper and Charles de Gaulle....
...In February 1933, Thomas Mann left his homeland to give a talk on Wagner in Amsterdam; he was travelling in Switzerland when his family in Munich warned him that it wasn’t safe to return....
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