Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aaron's pursuit of the Babe's magic number has other meanings as well. Ruth was larger than life, (see box next page) a carefree superman in a giddy era. Aaron cannot depose him no matter how many home runs he hits. But Aaron, by comparison merely a flesh-and-blood Everyman, demonstrates that a hero need not be mythic...
...Americans, the Japanese are discovering that success does not necessarily make them popular. In Britain, a Gallup poll shows that 37% of those questioned regard Japan as "an unfriendly country." On the cover of Vision, a European business monthly, the Japanese businessman was depicted as a belligerent, muscle-flexing superman. German executives do not like it that Japanese salaries are generally 10% to 30% higher than their own. The Japanese politely retort that their success is merited because they work harder to sell to Europeans than Europeans do to sell to them...
...devil. Gardner's helpless narrator is the hilarious antithesis to the traditional omniscient, omnipotent story-teller. At one point he is actually transformed into flesh and almost killed in a Corinthian slave uprising. While this clown stumbles about Corinth like Jimmy Olson, cub reporter for the Daily Planet, Superman Gardner delves into more universal themes, mustering all of his authorial prowess to drastically alter the mythic conception of Jason and Medeia...
...thoughts of Jack London as an allegory of the potential tragedy hidden in the dream. As a writer, London rises out of the working class to national fame and wealth. As he becomes rich and famous London indulges a variety of self-destructive dreams; he thinks himself a Nietzschean superman; he builds himself a great mansion which burns to the ground; he kids himself that his habitual drinking is not alcoholism; he refuses to believe that his aging body is no longer strong and healthy. Finally, alone and despairing, he kills himself. In London's suicide Starr perceives the possible...
...BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SUPERMAN. Faster than a speeding musical, he fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the Vietnamese war. Tomorrow and Saturday at Quincy House...