Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Superman. Superman is jailed on a bum rap but he refuses to escape. An inspiration to us all. Ch. 27, 5 p.m. 1/2 hour...
Already, he shows the imprint of his mentor, that mixture of the morally-incensed minor prophet of Zion with the more modern, less pious, Superman of DC Comic aura and Nietzchean ethics...
...Watergate grand-jury transcripts in the column, even when "we knew it [news of the cover-up] would come out sooner or later," or of the staff's standard operating procedure to opt against self-censorship "in 99 out of 100 cases" makes the onlooker wonder whether the Anderson Superman world consists of anything other than faster-than-sound scoops and ground rules laid...
Like eager quiz-show contestants, Zed and Boorman are not bashful about flaunting their education. Bolstered by his psychic seminar. Zed drops quotes from Ecdesiastes, T.S. Eliot and Nietzsche, whose idea of a superman he now suggests. For himself, Boorman borrows -and cunningly acknowledges-a crucial image from L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. The trouble is that none of these sources is assimilated; they are like footnotes without a source. Fortunately there are some bright intervals of self-deprecatory humor that lighten the occasional pomposity of the material...
Pearson tries hard to humanize the Secret Service Superman. But as the ad ventures come thick and fast, 007 remains precisely what Fleming made him: a suave robot programmed to exploit the romantic idea that physical pleasure becomes more intense as death becomes more imminent. After 1 5 min utes, readers looking for truth will see the put-on. But true Bondsmen will rejoice at any flimsy excuse to see their man in action again. Bond is last seen heading for Australia on the trackdown of an old antagonist, Irma Bunt, the late Ernst Stavro Blofeld's baleful dumpling...