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...world around him changed with dizzying speed. Science grew prodigiously, and its instruments-oscilloscopes, electronic computers, cyclotrons-enlisted superhuman precision and almost supernatural forces. But although Kramer's shop moved out of the stable after 27 years, it changed hardly at all. (The Smithsonian itself never budged from its first location, on The Mall in Washington.) Kramer's old lathe and grindstone still hummed their gentle songs, and his work went on. Almost no one came to visit him except the scientists who ordered his instruments. "I enjoyed my work," says Kramer. "It was very quiet." For amusement...
...school he was known as the "feudal bourgeois"-too emotional and soft-and was referred to Lenin's words on the subject of human feeling: "I know nothing which is greater than [Beethoven's] Appassionato; I would like to listen to it every day. It is marvelous, superhuman music. I always think with pride-perhaps it is naive of me-what marvelous things human beings can do! But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create...
...epitaph would indicate, Michelangelo Buonarroti was accepted by his contemporaries as almost superhuman. Most biographers, surveying the awesome remains of Michelangelo's genius, have decided that his contemporaries were right. Yet by doing more than human honor to the man, history has generally done less than human justice to his real achievement...
Some excerpts from the cover stories: "Modern man has become accustomed to machines with superhuman muscles, but machines with superhuman brains are still a little frightening." "The Pentagon ... is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when...
...surprising that all the characters in Plymouth Adventure spend a great deal of time impressing people with who they are. Van Johnson, in particular, greets everyone with a hearty handshake and an introduction: "I'm John, John Alden." Neither is it surprising that all the Pilgrims show a superhuman piety and fearlessness, that they are all cultured and very proper, acting more like their descendants than the hardy tinkers and tailors they were. For the producers of this movie were obviously concerned lest they shatter any primary school images. So they have handled the Pilgrims carefully. The only boorish character...