Word: superhumanize
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Vietnam became a symbol for us, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed courageous and cooperative, almost superhuman. Socialist men and women stood in the rice field and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
...potency or masculinity. Having intercourse only intensifies these worries if the first experiences prove disappointing. In fact they often do. Psychiatrist Moskowitz notes that adolescents are saturated with sexual talk and books, and may take as the norm the improbable exploits they see in pornographic films. Thus they develop superhuman expectations. Young girls believe that they should have intoxicating orgasms beginning with their first night in bed with a boy. Even when sex itself is pleasurable, young people are often aware that something is missing. As a young construction worker told Cottle: "Ain't anybody any more knows...
Vietnam became a symbol for us, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed courageous and cooperative, almost superhuman. Socialist men and women stood in the rice fields and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
Vietnam became for us a symbol, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed almost superhuman, courageous and cooperative. Socialist Men and Women in the rice field and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
...minute wreath-laying ceremony at a massive black Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto. Said Marek Edelman, 53, the only leader of the uprising who still lives in Poland: "We proved that a few people, hungry and poorly equipped, could resist, and that the Germans were not a superhuman force...