Word: superhumanize
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...pundits focused on the men most closely surrounding the presidency. Columnist Joseph Alsop was pleased by the prospect that President Johnson planned to keep, for a while at least, most of Kennedy's advisers. But there was one for whom Alsop was willing to open the exit door. "Superhuman fortitude will be required," said Alsop, "or a grave disaster will be risked, if Attorney General Robert Kennedy tries to serve another man as he served his brother." The New York Times's James Reston urged the late President's corps of White House advisers to conquer their...
...respiratory distress." The difficulty probably begins in the womb. At the end of a full-term pregnancy, a woman's hormone balance changes drastically to bring on labor. By a mechanism not yet understood in detail, these same changes, transmitted through the placenta, prepare the baby for the superhuman feat of changing from an aquatic parasite, drawing oxygen from its mother's blood, to an in dependent air breather. If pregnancy is too short, these hormone triggers work weakly or not at all. The preemie delivered by caesarean has an especially urgent need for efficient lung-clearing reflexes...
Something Superhuman. At 64, Carnovsky has played many of the classic character parts - Shylock, Prospero and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. But Lear, obviously, is something else again, and Carnovsky says that when the role was offered to him he "fainted inside." The part, he says, "demands almost super human strength. The actor must learn to tell the truth...
Antony and Cleopatra, as Shakespeare conceived them, were superhuman symbols: Mars and Aphrodite, Rome and Egypt, hero and serpent twined in the grand passion that compels the universe itself. "The nobleness of life," they cried, "is to do thus," and as they "kiss'd away kingdoms" they ecstatically proclaimed the world well lost for love...
...Leningrad under his baton since 1938. The rehearsal facilities he has available to him would make any Western conductor envious: for a new or particularly difficult work there is absolutely no restriction on rehearsal time. But unlike some conductors, Mravinsky does not exhort his men to superhuman efforts. His theory is that if he trains them never to go all out, always to hold something back, they will play with greater precision...