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...measured against his contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
...wave of action to Communism which occurred in the post-war years, many people strongly protested the appearance of such people as Gerhart Eisler before University audiences. When Eisler spoke in 1948 and 1949 on such topics as "The Marxist Theory of Social Change" newspapers and commentators throughout the country branded the University as "Communist-run" and called upon the administration to ban Eisler and his ilk from the University scene...
...Manhattan six years ago, when a baldish little man with glasses came aboard on a 25? visitor's ticket and sailed as a stowaway. Unlike most stowaways, he soon dug first-class passage money from his pocket. He also owned up to the name of Gerhart Eisler. For unwittingly aiding in the escape of a key Communist agent, badly wanted in the U.S., Captain Cwiklinski got involved in a nasty, three-cushion carom on the international billiard table...
...their new strength by beating Winthrop last week. Lou Cowardin is playing on the first line with Pete Wells and Ed Galvin. High scoring defenseman John Coolidge recently broke his wrist, leaving Jan Meyer and Roy Johnson to share defense duties. Senior Hugh Wilde is the goalie. Ed Cary, Gerhart Shade, and Pete Winans make up the second line...
...Most notorious Communist bail-jumper to date: Gerhart Eisler, top Cominform agent in the U.S. until 1949, when he forfeited his $23,500 bond and got out of New York on the Polish ship Batory. Fugitive Eisler became East Germany's propaganda chief, and then was placed in charge of preventing escapes across the border...