Word: superhumanize
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Actually each successive Five-Year Plan (piatiletka) is a set of production targets which the state planners then exhort the Russian people to attain by superhuman effort. The sixth piatiletka (1956-60) is more than usually superhuman: in the next five years heavy industry must be up 70%, pig iron up 70%, steel up 51%, coal up 49%, oil up 100%, building up 52%, consumer goods up 60%; in agriculture grain production must increase 80%, while labor efficiency on state farms must rise 70%, on collectives 100%. Incentives are a calculated feature of piatiletki: 55 million workers will...
...unite these elements Ben-Gurion called for "tremendous educational effort, superhuman patience and boundless love." Within a day's walk of Tel Aviv's neon lights are villages where babies are still painted to ward off the evil eye. Said one social worker: "The 20th century is living next to the 10th." In a village near Beersheba, a group of five young Israelis who answered Ben-Gurion's call to live with the newcomers found a group of Jews from Cochin China-dark-skinned, resigned, pious and poor-who seemed to share nothing with the new state...
...result is intellectual theater at close to its best. The ideas that the drama deals in are among the grandest in the human range, and as they marshal and maneuver on the stage, the audience feels caught and carried in the icy passion of a superhuman chess game in which the stakes are life or death for more than Joan. Compared of course to the virile mace-work of George Bernard Shaw in his Saint Joan, it is sometimes oversubtle rapier play in the Gallic fashion that scores points but does not really make a wound. The actors, however, under...
Summing up his electromagnetic theory, Menzel said that "the solar system resulted when the sun 'blew a fuse.'" If there are many other planets in the universe, he concluded, "Life, even human or superhuman life, may exist in millions of places in the universe...
...pictures of their huddled, muffled, weirdly commingled existence. It was an existence fated to end in Nazi concentration camps and death, but for the two years it lasted, it proved a fascinating mixture of the brightly ordinary and the hideously abnormal, of all-too-human squabbles and all-but-superhuman control, of comic faultfinding and heroic adjustment, of people at once transformed and quite untouched...