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...crisis, the human body is capable of superhuman feats. Last week, by way of demonstration, a slender, ailing woman lifted the rear...
Forget the Pain. Why? In everyday, nonstressful use of muscles, Dr. Hellebrandt holds, man leaves them largely under the control of his highest reasoning centers (in the cerebral cortex). But in extremis, as in the agony phase of exhaustion or in a crisis when a man finds the superhuman strength to lift one corner of a heavy automobile to free his trapped child, the cortex shuts down and the primitive brain centers take over. It is in this state that Dr. Hellebrandt sees the crossover effect of muscle building, and that is why she pushes her coed volunteers...
...midriff and laughed in wonderment at the evident warmth of the welcome that showered around him on the streets of Athens. "I think he's absolutely getting to love this," said a tired staffer. "He doesn't say so, but he'd have to be superhuman not to feel this way." In the third week of his 22,000-mile journey, Dwight Eisenhower indeed was having a wonderful time. In Iran, in Greece and in Tunisia, where monuments of great ancient civilizations still stand, the glowing pageant of people seemed to rush by like pages riffled...
...unable to cast a shadow and hence to bear children. In search of a shadow, she persuades a dyer's wife to surrender her own, and thus renounce her power to bear children, for luxuries and an imaginary romance. In a mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman love, selfish and selfless love, the dyer's wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange for another's misery. Moving between the human and the spirit world, the opera blazes with magic effects: a sword swinging...
...critics agreed with Laughton's interpretation. The News Chronicle found him "not at all unlike a mixture of Charles Darwin and Longfellow . . . weak and frail and human . . . hardly ever majestic, towering or superhuman." But the Times thought "Mr. Laughton's performance a superb essay in stage pathos...