Word: supermanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters in the play, tying them in inextricable knots as his "motiveless malignity" see fit. But Othello must stand as an object great enough for his fall to shock the audience. That is almost calling for the superhuman. And it's debatable whether Robeson is quite such a superman...
...passed his 60th birthday there. A deflated Mr. Toad, no longer could he swell visibly and let himself go with uplifted voice before supposedly enraptured audiences. From his ex-colleague Adolf Hitler came an anniversary gift: the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, who had written: "I teach you the Superman. . . . Thou hast made danger thy calling; therein is nothing contemptible." But from his ex-people came only bitter remembrance. Milan's Corriere della Sera called him "an aged corrupter," now as good as buried...
...picked up the cult of superman from Nietzsche, the creed of power from Machiavelli. Pareto taught him to despise democracy, Marx to scorn capitalism, and Sorel the myth of universal violence. He courted martyrdom, spat at priests, lived promiscuously with at least half a dozen women. Out of Marxism, jingoism and obscurantism he compounded a new thing called Fascism and imposed it on a nation weakened by war and frightened by social unrest...
After all is said & done, what American would want to think of our leader as a "Superman". . .? We'll be content to leave those attributes to comic strips and Der Führer. . . . Our President is a man, a mere mortal, whose "chickens come home to roost." We don't expect him to be infallible...
...earlier pastoral letter the Archbishop of Cologne had got off a direct and public attack on Naziism: "The doctrine of the superman will not bring happiness and prosperity to men." It went unanswered. This week he joined with the Bishop of Paderborn in a denunciation of Nazi morality...