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Word: superman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be allowed to resign. He is not Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man in a Million | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man in a Million | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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