Word: supermanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part . . . esthetic. But the pattern is the same. Art has its evolution, which follows the development of races and nations, the progress of culture ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of sociological import. The Ring [of the Nibelungs] accordingly celebrates in turn the superman-to-be, the fall of the old gods through the curse of gold, and the triumph of Germanism, in one long tale of blood, lust and deceit. . . . History is a sieve that works, and the residue is the artwork of the future...
Busy Dean Dixon also works with a choral group, gives three free weekly music appreciation courses to both Negro and white children. These he teaches by inventing melodramatic stories, substituting musical notes for letters and words. "I try to use as much Superman stuff as possible," says Dean Dixon...
There has probably never been a literary reincarnation like this. To U.S. men of draft age, Frank Merriwell is a vague synonym for a ninth-inning home run or a last-minute touchdown. But to an older generation, he was as vividly real a person as Superman or Tarzan is to youngsters today. Gilbert Patten, under the pseudonym of "Burt L. Standish," wrote the first Merriwell book in 1896, kept on writing at the rate of 20,000 or more words a week for nearly 20 years. Insatiably, week after week, legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers...
...affected his thinking, a comprehension of the understandable portion of the Nietzschean philosophy, and lastly an orientation of Nietzsche's thought in the intellectual milieu of today. In a light style, humorous and ironic and aphoristic but not trifling, the book clearly explains Nietzsche's doctrines of the Superman, the Will to Power, and the Trans-valuation of all Values. Avoiding the jargon of the professional philosopher, historian Brinton has written a volume too current to be definitive, too intriguing to be limited only to scholarly perusal...
...Hawk Man's constantly rescued women. A boy who had been ignored all his life by an unstable mother and an alcoholic father believed that he was in constant danger, that he would die in five years. He found relief by identifying himself with the invulnerable Superman. For normal children: "Desire for blood and thunder is not depraved, and satisfying it by reading the comic books is a relatively innocuous and socially acceptable form of its release. It would seem to offer the same type of mental catharsis to its readers that Aristotle claimed was an attribute...