Word: superhumanize
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...actors give considerably better than they get. Eartha Kitt is Anna, and her extraordinary animal glitter makes her histrionic limitations irrelevant. Sammy Davis Jr. is Danny, the oversexed sailor, and there are at least three major scenes in which Sammy, with superhuman energy, takes over the screen like a blackface Bugs Bunny...
Doctor Rock was probably intended as a tragic figure; he fails of tragic stature partly because Thomas has made him often willfully nasty, less superhuman than inhuman. The scenes with his pretty young paragon of a wife, which were probably supposed to loosen him up, are a total loss, as the young lady has no qualities except loyalty, humility, and a talent for making her husband talk in passionate puerilities...
Harvard probably has the best last-five-minute hockey team in the East. Another superhuman effort Friday night netted the two tying goals against Boston College just 46 seconds apart, but Eagle Jack Cusack's 20-foot slap shot at 6:33 of the sudden death period sent the Crimson home with a 3-2 defeat. The junior varsity and freshman teams were defeated by 5-3 and 3-0 scores, respectively...
...Indians was topped only by that of his own publicity men, who showered the press with London-printed brochures, glossy photographs, canned biographies and the repeated injunction that the great man's name is pronounced "En-Kromah." Acknowledging his debt to the "inspiration" of Gandhi and the "superhuman efforts" of Nehru, Nkrumah talked glowingly of his own "parliamentary democracy" back home...
...uncovered no single outstanding player in the tradition of Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski (1929), Michigan's Tom Harmon (1940), Ohio State's Hopalong Cassady (1955). Instead, All-America selectors-and the pro teams-will have to choose among a large group of topflight, if not superhuman players...