Word: superman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry is to other men. Even in his teens, he wrote letters to the editor instead of verse, and to a girl he would say triumphantly: "Have I not made you think?" He played with opinions as versifiers play with words. Don Juan's speech in Man and Superman ("They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public-spirited, only patriotic," etc.), is really a prose aria balancing on a counterpoint of ideas...
...will probably be onetime Vaudeville Hoofer Walter Winchell as host of his own variety show early next month. Paul Douglas will join Mary Martin, biggest audience-puller on TV. in Born Yesterday on Hallmark Hall of Fame, which will also repro cruce Shaw's Man and Superman with...
...juvenile TV programs, condemned 31 out of 67 as "objectionable" or "most objectionable." Hopalong Cassidy, said NAFBRAT, is "objectionable because of typical Western crime element." At Captain Midnight, "even the stronghearted falter," and Jungle Jim episodes are a "mixture of kidnaping, torture, unbearable suspense, horrible screams." NAFBRAT also condemned Superman ("Youngsters believe his 'super' talents to be within the realm of possibility. In this lies the danger") and Little Rascals (". . . flaunting their impudent behavior before the helpless adults. Could there be a worse example for our children...
Conceivably Hopalong and Superman may overstimulate young imaginations. But a steady diet of such modern-reader characters as Dick and Jane may result in something worse. To Mrs. Frances C. Sayers, former superintendent of work with children at the New York Public Library, one reason so few (17%) Americans read books after leaving school is just because their early ones are so simple and so pleasant. "This seems a paradox, and it is. The paradox is in the word 'enjoyment.' We rob the children of the initial enjoyment of wrestling with reading by making all the words...
...diary: "My little girl is singing: 'Ah ah ah ah.' I do not understand its meaning, but I feel what she wants to say. She wants to say that everything . . . is not horror, but joy." This brings Wilson close, as he acknowledges, to Nietzsche's Superman, the man who can say: I accept everything. As for Nietzsche, Wilson likens him to "a big gun with some trifling mechanical fault that explodes and kills all the crew." (Nietzsche's judgment of himself: "I am one of those machines that sometimes explode...