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Together they may eventually shape Homo futurus, a creature resembling the Superman of the Nietzschean and Shavian dream?or at least one whose powers will be dramatically different from contemporary...
...swift conquest, the film's Lawrence loses heart in the desert campaign. He sees himself as unfit for military command-not out of military considerations, but because of his failure to live up to his own personal vision. He is part Arab and part English, and only a superman would be able to bridge that cultural gap. Lawrence, with a fear of bloodshed which does not control his erratic sadism, and a masochism which is brought to the surface when he is tortured at the hands of a homosexual Turkish Boy at Deraa, is not the one to fulfill...
...come to expect a climax in the things we view, and usually a happy one. We are indignant if Superman allows Lois Lane to be undone by a buzz-saw, or if the U.S. Calvary and Rin Tin Tin don't beat the shit out of the Indians. So one's sense of propriety was jarred this weekend when Cooney Weiland's illustrious hockey career ended not with Harvard's first NCAA championship, but with an unbelievable 6-5 loss to Minnesota, and then a 1-0 defeat the next afternoon. Where was God, or Cecil DeMille for that matter...
...knights and highwaymen, Robin Hood and Superman, capes were no mere fashion. They were a way of life. Romance and adventure might as well have been sewn into the lining: the style guaranteed them. Modern-day versions have even more to offer, with a choice of colors, fabrics and assorted flourishes undreamed of in the days of chivalry. For women this winter, capes are clearly the most popular way to cover up since face powder...
...from a ball that's thrown at him, that says something about the kid's comfort with his body, or his conflict about aggression." That conflict, Psychiatrist Lawrence Salvesen of Massachusetts General Hospital believes, often comes out in a child's fantasy that he is either "superman or super-egg (exceptionally fragile)." Mike relieves a child's anxiety, Salvesen explains, by teaching him that he can neither destroy nor be destroyed in an ordinary fight. To Psychiatrist Joae Selzer of Boston, the key is Mike himself, "one of those charismatic, enthusiastic, down-to-earth people...