Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaw, never a systematic nor an original thinker, preached socialism-but a brand so condescending and aristocratic that both Hyde Park revolutionists and solid trade unionists regarded him as an interloper. His bureaucratic socialism was a mixture of the Enlightened Gentleman and the Robot Superman. His heated exposes of the conditions of England's workers were followed by sneering gibes at their stupidity (the "Yahoos," he called them). He attacked capitalism, but portrayed capitalists so sympathetically that the readers of his plays found the attack indistinguishable from a defense...
...Superman of Nietzsche." But L'Humanité could not wait for the following Wednesday. Twenty-four hours later the women's page screamed: "Mothers, beware of American illustrated papers . . . these drawings, these comics." Hearst comics were the worst, but all were...
...Here is Tarzan, king of muscle, Mandrake, king of magic, and, stronger than all, Superman (the Superman of Nietzsche recently adopted by the Americans), whose power has no limits and who well symbolizes the overweening vanity of atomic capitalism...
...Superman (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Maurice Evans) sets forth what is very likely Shaw's best-known theory but remains one of his least-seen plays. Longwindedness is its only very serious fault. After 42 years, Shaw's once explosive thesis (it is really woman who pursues man) may have all the soothing familiarity of a nursery rhyme; but after 42 years the play remains a wickedly witty comedy about the basis of marriage and the War Between the Sexes. And about anything else that happened to pop into Shaw's head...
...narrative of Bozo's travels, get a rudimentary idea of geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey showed that the story children most wanted recorded was Superman, Columbia sternly refused, because it was "not interested in that sort of thing...