Word: supermans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this work, Sartre betrays himself as a multi-dimensional "Superman" of sorts. He is a very human human-being, an intellectual, a scholar, a lover and a poet. The Diaries reveal Sartre not only as a man able to joke, but as one concerned with his physical being, even with such silly, unimportant things as his physical appearance. He talks of his need to diet, while betraying his concern that he is not strong enough to stick to it. "What am I to do?" he asks himself. "Drink up, thinking: I'll start my diet tomorrow, today it's impossible...
EVERY RED-BLOODED and not-so-red-blooded American boy is brought up to hate the Germany of World War II. From Superman comic books to John Wayne movies to "games" of war (you remember--running around with a whiffle bat pretending it was a submachine gun), the German is always the had guy and the American is always the good one. World War II really satisfies the American need to classify things in terms of black and white because, unlike most wars, it really was black and white No one can really deny that the Nazis were evil, aggressive...
...German military cemetery visit wasn't a bad first. Anyone who has torn his eyes away from a Superman comic book to see the film Das Boot (The Boat) knows that German, yes German, can be sympathetic character. The him is about a German submarine crew and the fighting they have to endure-both against the enemy and against themselves. There are bad Nazis on board, but most of the crew are apolitical, beer-guzzling men of integnily who destroy boats because they are told to destroy boats. They don't enjoy it, and are just as atraid of being...
WHAT DID Reagan in were those damned graves of SS men, who were certainly not victims, and were in fact evil men that Superman justly eliminated numerous times. No matter how many "regular" German are buried there, those few SS graves can't be ignored. Added to Reagan's initial reluctance to visit a concentration camp, it was the gaffe to end all gaffes...
Written by Hitchcock in the '40s, Rope's use of Rupert's superman ideology makes the play a powerful parallel to Hitler's frighteningly effective use of racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. In both case, immature minds grasped on perverse ideologies, which fueled by intense emotional needs, culminated in disaster...