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...demonstrations in connection with English 160, the HDC also offered public readings of Strindberg's A Dream Play, Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, and the Don Juan in Hell Interlude from Shaw's Man and Superman...
East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: Rosemary Harris stars, on alternate nights, in The Sea Gull, Affairs of Anatol, Man and Superman...
Nietzsche's superman was one of his first ideals; Henri Bergson's matter-mastering Life Force was his first philosophy, followed by bouts with Buddhism and Leninism. Though he sometimes sounded like an atheist and proclaimed that man creates God in his own image, Kazantzakis was agonized by the struggle for faith and haunted by the figure of Christ. His 1948 novel, The Greek Passion-in which a group of villagers with roles in a passion play are forced to act out their roles in real life-movingly restated the old idea that if Christ returned to earth...
...title suggests, Getting Married is about men and women and the relations that subsist between them as such, Man and Superman and Pygmalion show what Shaw could sometimes do with this theme; here he treats it so as to expose one of his most celebrated deficiencies. I do not, like certain critics, hold a personal grudge against Shaw for not being D. H. Lawrence; but I do think it was a mistake to contrive a dramatic discussion of marriage in which the sexual urge is ignored almost as resolutely as in a Victorian novel...
...world's most remarkable athletes, is a stocky, Sacramento-born Nisei named Tommy Kono, 29. He wears horn-rimmed glasses, speaks with unfeigned modesty, and seems as innocuous as Clark Kent-until he takes off his clothes and sets to work. Then Kono becomes Superman himself...