Robert Manning, the executive editor of The Atlantic, looks back on his 1954 visit with the Nobel Prize–winning author.
A nonadmirer once described the writings of Thomas Carlyle as “the history of silence in thirty volumes by Mr. Wordy.” But Carlyle was a dry well next to the 3000-barrels-a-day prosifiers who regale us today. What ever happened to the simple declarative sentence? Now it can be told.
The ATLANTIC’S editor says that he indulges here in even less than the accepted minimum of exaggeration.
Nine American writers and editors, back from a tour to Berlin and major West German cities, give their personal impressions of Germans today.
Formerly chief of the London bureau of an American weekly, ROBERT MANNING is now an assistant secretary of stale.