Word: superhumans
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...other, constantly lifts one hand toward the blue bowl of the sky." Since that hand holds offerings-the offerings of art-the book also contains more genuine insights into art than a shelf of criticism. Of the Sistine Chapel: "Poor Michelangelo-to have been put to so undignified and superhuman a task! It was obvious that they had overestimated his genius in expecting him to make up by painting alone for the Sistine's total lack of architecture...
...ancient Aryan invaders of India found that from the fermented juice of a vine (probably Asdepias acida) they could get a drink that made them feel happy, courageous and of superhuman strength. They called it "soma." It was so potent that it gained the status of a deity (the Rigveda is repetitive with praises of the divine potion). That was about 3,500 years...
Radiance, fierce-burning, superhuman intensity of human passion, shines and pours through the torment of Michelangelo's art. His Conversion of St. Paul, commissioned by Pope Paul III in 1542, has lightning in it. The lightning streams down from God's hand upon Paul, to reshape him utterly. This was the work of an artist who would do anything for his work but nothing for reward-a man inspired as St. Paul had been, and forever conscious of the lightning from above that would blaze through...
Dredging the killers' pasts, Dr. Satten and his colleagues discovered that all had histories of being bad actors-getting into fist fights that would have ended fatally if others had not intervened, etc. At these times they displayed superhuman strength; it took seven men to restrain one who fought like this. Yet all were preoccupied with fears of being, or being considered, "sissies...
...sexless ninny. Yet in many of the recent westerns, the woman is far less passive. She is continually attempting to bring the hero down to earth, to make him face reality. She is behaving like a real woman, "and the hero, as a result, begins to lose his superhuman disinterestedness and sexlessness, begins to behave like a real...