Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Comic book fans should check out CBS's movie version of The Incredible Hulk, Channel 7, 8 p.m., Friday. Bill Bixby plays the weakling scientist who transforms himself into a repulsively ugly creature with superhuman strength by exposing himself to massive amounts of radiation (gamma rays, for all those trivia nuts out there). Aficionados beware: television adaptations of superheroes have a notoriously poor track record. The book is usually much better...
...winner you must judge yourself by only one criterion--did you do what was necessary to bring home the win; did you get it done? If getting it done means taking on the other squad singlehanded or performing some superhuman feat, than that is what you must require yourself to do. Anything less isn't enough...
More than a half-century later, many of the canal builders' superhuman achievements can seem routine. Yet one thing that may have been routine at the beginning of the century is now clearly incomprehensible: the canal was completed six months ahead of schedule and below the estimated cost. This massive excavation of the past brims with such evidence of how far we have progressed-and regressed-in six decades. As he so skillfully did in his book about the Brooklyn Bridge, McCullough seldom fails to make the reader feel like a sidewalk superintendent of history...
...document that had the flexibility and strength to cope with a situation that the founding fathers anticipated, which was weakness of human nature. If we'd just go back to that and not think we could legislate morality and not keep thinking about this business of everybody being superhuman. The country stood strong, the people stood calm, and he is out. We are now back to normal. This is the thing my brother talks about-this mystical thing that is democracy...
Looking ahead to the fall, something else Carter needs is to carry Illinois. Every election since 1916 has found that state on the winning side, and Daley's superhuman efforts to put Illinois in Kennedy's column proved decisive in 1960 (to the chagrin of Republicans suspicious of "ghost voting" illegalities). Ford is very strong in Illinois--besides Michigan it was his most significant win--so if Carter expects to come away with those 25 electoral votes, he'll need the Mayor's whole-hearted support...