Word: simplicissimus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time he was 23, Mann had already struck his friends as "grave." The brief period he spent as editorial assistant on the satirical magazine Simplicissimus only seemed to increase his specific gravity. The summers he spent in Italy seemed to make him even more German. To go south in a Mann story became a symbol for going to the devil...