Word: superman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be allowed to resign. He is not Superman...
...novel? Is it a nightmare? Is it Superman-in the comic-strip or the Nietzschean version? During the book's opening passages-for 300 or 400 pages, that is-the reader cannot be sure. Then the truth emerges: Author Ayn Rand, a sort of literary Horsewoman of the Apocalypse, is smashing the world with half a million words in order to rebuild it according to her own philosophy. And that philosophy must be read to be disbelieved...
...camera looks down like Shiva on the glittering tremendum of eternal snows; waterborne, it hurls the watcher through a thrilling passage of some rapids on the Indus River. But when the travel stops and the story begins, the show turns out to be a quasi-Oriental epic with a superman for a hero. The superman: radio's Lowell Thomas, who just happens to be one of the founders of Cinerama Productions Corp...
Daydream à Deux. Box F-1794 turned out to be the Sketch, which promptly cooked up the Win-A-Man stunt, put Powell on the payroll as its "Bowler-Hat Superman." Thousands of letters poured in to the paper, from spinsters, jokers (one chap needed a chap to trim his corns), enlisted men who wanted an officer to serve them breakfast...
...Sketch last week assigned its married superman to bring a wife back to her husband (she promised to think about it), appointed him Daddy-for-a-Day to a ten-year-old boy whose father was in the hospital, packed him off to Paris for a daydream à deux with a pretty 20-year-old who wrote that she wanted "to go shopping with a man like him and have him take me to lunch at Paris' No. 1 restaurant." Though his first missions (he spends from a day to a week on each one) proved more...