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Fact was that, though his Washington trip had stirred the people, it had miffed the Assembly. Old EDC supporters and "good Europeans" had been counting on U.S. antipathy to help bring Mendes down, and were dismayed when Dulles pronounced him a "superman." Deputies, jealous of their prerogatives, did not like Mendes' advance assurance that France would make it "a point of honor ... to be among the first to ratify" the Paris agreements...
...museums of the metropolitan area boast over 3,500,000 visitors a year -more than the combined yearly attendance at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds. Many thousands more visit Manhattan's 150 art galleries, where Superman, if so inclined, might see 1,500 exhibitions in a single season. The city's galleries and art auction houses did a total business last year as great as that of any other capital. And, say gallery men, business will be even bigger this year...
...shiny old black suit and eloquently pointed a way to peace for distinguished listeners, including Norway's King Haakon VII. His message: man can abolish war only through a revival of the same ethical spirit which lifted Europe from the Dark Ages. Said Schweitzer: "Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature . . . The superman, in the measure that his power increases, becomes himself poorer and poorer. In order to avoid [atomic] destruction...
...mock hero of The Man Without Qualities is a thirtyish intellectual named Ulrich. an egghead so tired that he is little more than a spiritual shell. Echoing his nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early...
...time a child is nine or ten, he is apt to find these shows "too babyish" for his more sophisticated taste and will turn to space serials, westerns or the shows borrowed from the comic strips, e.g., Superman and Joe Palooka. Today's children get a great amount of their TV entertainment from the old movies that enchanted their parents when they were moppets: most kid shows include a few reels of ancient Charlie Chase comedies or animated cartoons that date back to the 1920s. One cartoon series, Crusader Rabbit, was made especially...