Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republic contracted the most visible case of split personality. Critic Conrad Brenner extolled the book for four pages, ended: "Vladimir Nabokov is an artist of the first rank, a writer in the great tradition . . . Lolita is probably the best fiction to come out of this country . . . since Faulkner's burst in the '30s. [Nabokov] may be the most important writer now going in this country." But later, the New Republic used a lead editorial to call Lolita an "obscene chronicle of murder and a child's destruction," somberly explained "what obliges us to differ with...
...brutal deputy, Martin Bormann, was notorious for his hatred of religion, took particular care that "none of my children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." In 1945 Deputy Führer Bormann's son Martin, 15, was sent off to war in the Brenner Pass area as a member of the Hitler Youth "Werewolf" volunteers. In the Nazi holocaust, Party Leader Bormann vanished. Last week it became plain how completely Bormann had failed to guide his son along his own paths. After studying for nine years, Martin Bormann, 28, was consecrated a Roman Catholic priest...
Harris Hyman at 147 is possibly the best member of the squad, but he comes up against the Crimson's outstanding sophomore, former Yardling captain Joey Noble, who won by forfeit Friday. Another Engineer standout, Ed Brenner, will come up against Gilmor at 167. The other Tech star, Tony Vertin, meets Bob Foster, who also pinned his Dartmouth opponent...
Tech's only score came when time advantage failed to break a 4-4 points-deadlock between Joe Goodman and Mike Brenner of M.I.T., in the 167 class. Goodman was in the line-up to replace Charlie Harding, out with a bruised...
Johnston ends his book with sheer fantasy: a description of his own death in the Brenner Pass. At first sight, this appears to be a crude and contrived gag, but Johnston insists that he is serious. His moral is that he has crossed the nine rivers of experience and reached his long-sought goal: an understanding of war, which is too terrible for a man to live with. Such fatalism-and conceit-seems out of character with the life-lusty Irishman revealed in the book's earlier pages...