Word: superhumanly
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...American art critic free-lancing in Europe this summer, I must compliment you on your concise and readable account of Venice's Biennale [June 29], an art show that could not possibly be fully covered ex cept through superhuman means...
...Something of Value, the hero is a superhuman, inhuman colonial who slaughters Mau Mau while they are sleeping, does not spare women or children$#151;this would be a sign of weakness. The novel ends on a note of hope, from Ruark's point of view. One of the big African politicians gets a good dressing down from a colonial and finally recognizes that he should have stayed satisfied with his primitive life in the bush. "We are fast becoming a people of half-white, half-smart, half-civilized spivs and scoundrels and loafers and whores," he confesses...
...Glasses in fact (an American student in Venice remembers that some one called him excitedly from a bar one night to say that he had just met Seymour Glass's brother-in-law) that readers feel sure that the stories must be autobiographical. But Salinger has done his superhuman best to keep that matter dark...
...Columbia with his own student combo, changed his mind. After touring the U.S. with Flutist Herbie Mann and a jazz combo, he settled down to serious composition. His most ambitious work to date: an opera about the Ma Barker mob, which appeals to him because "you need subhuman or superhuman characters in opera" and because he hopes that the role of 220-lb. Ma will "resuscitate the race of Wagnerian sopranos...
...Columnist David Lawrence, resist an "I told you so." Wrote he: "Kennedy perhaps wishes he had not been so critical of the Eisen hower Administration a few months ago and probably regrets the demagoguery he put into those campaign speeches. Nobody will deny that Mr. Kennedy has an almost superhuman job on his hands. But he will not win cooperation by alibis attempting to shift responsibility to the press, nor by spending so much of his time at partisan political dinners or in conferences with political bosses." Even New York Herald Tribune Pundit Roscoe Drummond, carefully neutral to Kennedy...