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...cost of needed new railroad mileage by a whopping $1.4 billion. Industries Minister Krishnamachari, bemoaning the dearth of skills in India's vast untrained manpower pool, despaired of attaining the plan's steel production goals. "Finding personnel for the new steel plants," he said, "looks like a superhuman task...
...only real live scientist he knows [as] a dispenser of wonder drugs and a performer of life-saving operations." Worse, many a doctor is playing along with the myth: "He thinks that in order to keep his patient's confidence, he must live up to a superhuman role, and build the illusion that medicine is an exact science and doctors are infallible." Bach's advice to such medicos: "Take on the classic humility of the old country doctor who often said: 'I have done all I can; we must leave the rest...
...with vision that goes out over larger areas of experience than those of mortals, and with a kind of wintry" courage that is not mere passive resignation. Moore's rhythms are those of earth itself." Noninitiates might retort that Moore's sculptures look more subhuman than superhuman. Granting its plastic power-its dramatic impact as a shape-his Draped Reclining Figure sadly lacks the sympathy with which Blake portrayed all human beings. It is like a lump trying to shake off a nightmare, and perhaps rise to human nature...
...command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature . . . The superman, in the measure that his power increases, becomes himself poorer and poorer. In order to avoid [atomic] destruction, he is obliged to hide himself underground like the beasts of the fields . . . [Lacking] superhuman reason . . . the more we become supermen, the more we become inhuman." Later, Schweitzer mentioned his plan to put all of his prize money ($33,149) into his hospital establishment at Lambaréné, the jungle town that is his home. But, said selfless Albert Schweitzer, more money is still needed...
...annihilated save for one individual-or, more productively, a fertile couple, "Far from being a byproduct of atomic fission," Plank contends, this theme goes back to Greek mythology and "grows from the fertile soil of unconscious drives." Such standard schizophrenic symptoms as delusions of grandeur, of persecution, and of superhuman influence are science-fiction staples...