Word: superhumanize
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...ancient times, Dr. Jung explains, the UFOs might be classed as "gods," but the unconscious of modern man has a different content. Ancient men saw dragons, other monsters and divine beings in the heavens; modern man sees mechanical portents-mysterious spaceships manned by unearthly superhuman creatures...
...living that normal life, that stable existence, to which they aspired. It was quite different with Gauguin and Van Gogh. It was these two lunatics who started the rupture between the artist and society. To the 20th century they were the models for geniuses beyond the law, possessed by superhuman power, which . . . laid them...
Winning a revolution is very much like waking up with a bad hangover. All of the glorious intoxication is gone, and the feeling of superhuman power is replaced by the dull ache of responsibility. Many Asian lands-Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Korea, Ceylon-are by now some ten years into the grey morning-after of independence, and political leaders who had once been dashing conspirators and heroic guerrilla captains have become aging politicians, surrounded by corruption, inefficiency and rivalry. All but the most obtuse are ready to admit that throwing out the imperialists was the easiest part of their...
...essence of such an art is its humanity. It is life-size and it is contemporary. But the method has its limits. It is merely human, and cannot swell to greet the superhuman. Guinness can hardly hope to fulfill the classical heroic roles, the Hamlets and the Agamemnons. Existence in any case is too intimate a thing to be lobbed in full voice across the footlights, but the camera has the faculty to appreciate it. It is for the camera that Guinness seems fated to do his best work. In comedy he has shown what he can do wonderfully well...
...thin air into a frying pan, a chorus of "unborn children"), the empress searches for a likely shadow and nearly gets it from the wife of a good and simple-minded dyer. Eventually all dissolves, amid some first-rate Hofmannsthal poetry, into a mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman life, selfish and selfless love...