Monday, June 02, 2025
Ill-Suited to the 20th Century
Ward W. Briggs, Jr., "Laistner, Max Ludwig Wolfram," in Ward W. Briggs, Jr., ed., Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 337-338 (at 338):
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He retained his British citizenship and seemed ill-suited to the 20th century. "Not for him the telephone, the gramophone, or the radio. Even the telephone stirred him to loud abuse unless it served his purpose and then was hung up."
