Word: supermanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whacky riffs which give Shaw opportunity to show a little technique if nothing else. Reverse is called When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin, and Scarlatti would have appreciated what harpsichordist Johnny Guarneri does to some of his own ideas (VICTOR)...Benny Goodman's latest twelve inch recording, Superman, is another elaborate Eddie Sauter orchestration, and features Cootie Williams pyrotechnics all the way through. There's also some tenor sax by Georgie Auld, who gets the same dirty tone out of his horn that Benny likes to use (COLUMBIA)... Metronome's 1941 All Star band has recorded...
...that would be required. Aircraft manufacturers wanted to keep as much defense pie for themselves as possible, even if the cutting were somewhat delayed. Labor was jealous, suspicious of them all. Caught between the lot of them was Commissioner Knudsen, whose burdens include the legend that he is a superman. Hardest fact of all to see was the certainty that the automobile industry was going to make aircraft engines and parts, that Walter Reuther's plan had at least served to speed that certainty...
Milquetoast by day and Superman at night, Tyrone Power outdoes Doug Fairbanks' earlier characterization of Diego Vega (alias Zorro), the Spanish Robin Hood of sixteenth century California. He rescues peasants, puts villains to the sword, and woos fair ladies with swashbuckling bravado. But porcine Engene Pallete steals acting honors as a he-man parish priest who crosses himself with one hand while wielding a wicked cudgel with a other. Basil Rathbone, who dictates to the local Franco, meets the just desserts of sneering down a long nose; and Linda Darnell drops in just long enough for two kisses...
...greater changes still. Reiser insists that men must not leave their evolution merely up to cosmic rays as in the past, but must take their fate in their own hands, construct a rational, planetary society. If man does so, promises Reiser, "he will be superseded by the superman...
...ancient curse, this poverty in the midst of plenty. For the most ardent meeting-goer, unless he be a Superman or a Mandrake, has no choice but to go to the U.T. in utter despair...