Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leopold, as Dean Stockwell interprets him, is a motherless young genius whose IQ is too high to be measured by any known intelligence test-essentially a gentle boy who has been completely mesmerized by the animal magnetism of his evil companion. Straus-Loeb is the superman, Steiner-Leopold the "superior slave" in a private world of post-Nietzschean fantasy and homosexual practice...
...boys resolve "to explore all the possibilities of human experience," to pluck the most exotic flowers of evil. Murder, Artie decides, is the only thing that will satisfy his compulsion "to do something really dangerous," and Judd loyally approves "the perfect crime" as "the true test of the superior intellect." So they kidnap a 14-year-old schoolboy named Paulie Kessler (fictional name for Bobby Franks), cosh-kill him in the back of a rented car, and dump the body in a culvert. Remorse? Artie seems incapable of human feeling. But thoughtful, sensitive Judd protests too much: "Murder...
...Harvard student is superior to the continental European student in respect to the wideness of his interests, but the two are about comparable in capabilities," Willy Hartner, Director at the Institute on the History of Science at the University of Frankfurt, observed in a recent interview...
...grandfathers; he has the world's highest living standard, but 10% of his income* goes for medical care. "One out of every four citizens will have to spend at least some months or years in a mental asylum. One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration...
...next to nothing," because today both victors and defeated share equally "the appalling fear of the terrible loneliness of the human race." Man's tie with tradition has been cut through, nor can mere political poster slogans bring back what has been lost. Woman used to be superior to man in maintaining the "well-arranged paths." But now, even she has forgotten "the old order of nature" and enters maturity "marching instead of dancing, carrying a flag in her hand instead of a sunshade...