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THIS AGE OF VIOLENCE, by Fredric Wertham. A clinical psychiatrist's indignant analysis of the seeds of violence in contemporary society, from toy guns and war games to TV drama and current fiction. Not even Superman or the Unknown Soldier gets a clean bill of health in this unsettling though probably oversimplified book...
...station in one week, the author found 334 completed or attempted killings, mostly during youngsters' viewing time. The heroic figure in TV and movie drama is often the "victorious man of violence." Toy manufacturers fill the Christmas counters with toy guns and war games. Even Superman is unhealthy fare: "the embodiment of racial superiority, race pride, race prejudice." Explains Wertham: "No dark-skinned or dark-complexioned or not-so-tall-or-so-full-chested youngster, whoever he is or whatever he achieves,' can measure up to the white Superman.'' The adult, too, is everywhere assaulted...
...standing in his party and in Britain. For the first time in his 21 months in office, his skills as a political leader were being seriously questioned. "The measures marked the end of an era," said London's leftist New Statesman. "His life as a political superman is over...
...SUPERMAN (Columbia). Superproducer Hal Prince should have nipped into a phone booth and found himself some supermusic for his musical. As it is, both score and lyrics are decidedly Clark Kentish. Recommended only for indefatigable collectors of original-cast albums...
...King Rat, James Clavell may have been only clearing his throat for this one, which seems every bit as long as it is. Its narrative pace is numbing, its style is deafening, its language penny dreadful. All the characters whirl like dervishes, especially Dirk Struan, a kind of Scottish superman who can borrow $5,000,000 in silver ingots from an Oriental tycoon, invent binoculars, and corner the world supply of cinchona bark, all without breathing very hard. Well, almost. His Scots accent wavers a bit under stress: "Damned if he'll get away with it, Will...