Word: superman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jasper Ammen is a singularly unpleasant person to read about. Some will find it hard to sympathize with him, others will find delight in a sublimation of their "Superman" tendencies. To anyone Conrad Aiken's portrait is a fearfully real...
This futile finish to a dictatorship has always been one of the most effective arguments against this form of government. No matter how much of a superman the autocrat is, he and his followers must face the truth that death takes no holiday. Modern style dictatorship is distinctly a post-war phenomenon, and as a result, Father Time has not had the opportunity to show his long-suspected preference for democratic rule. Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, are all young men and very much in the saddle. Not only has their power just started, but they own their very positions in large...
What made the play's failure doubly pathetic was that, despite Arms and the Man (1894). Candida (1894), Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Man and Superman (1902), Major Barbara (1905), Getting Married (1908) and Pygmalion (1912), George Bernard Shaw had at 78 just been voted in a British newspaper poll the public's greatest bore (TIME...
THIS WAS IVOR TRENT-Claude Houghton-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A trick novel about a four-dimensional man who is a walking prophecy of some super-race of the future. Superman Ivor Trent has keener perceptions than most humans, and a way with women...
...prevent any miscarriage of justice in awarding the "Hand Painted" to the "Superman of 1934"?don't fail to first confer with one Dizzy (but not dizzard) Dean...