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...believed that poverty was a crime, who married a rich and intelligent wife and made a fortune which could be compared with that of any Undershaft, Shaw was an ambiguous socialist: his intellect was totally engaged; his whole life (as Trotsky suspected) was not. The device of the Superman, the super-intellect, the Life Force, was his escape from the determinism of Marx and it coincided with his native, 18th Century taste for despots...
...overstimulated. If Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, John Bull's Other Island, Major Barbara, Pygmalion and possibly You Never Can Tell are excepted, the law of diminishing returns begins to work halfway through his plays. There are wonderful moments in Man and Superman and St. Joan, but comedy, or in the last case, tragedy, degenerate into the longueurs of debate; farce becomes crude. Devastating in his ability to talk on both sides of the question and to cap or sink his own arguments, Shaw damps us because he talks his way back to the status...
...Caudillo, Big Brother, Duce or Führer; these terms have a worldly connotation, and since he has achieved heavenly status without the necessity of dying, it is better to dub him saint. But in another sense, Saint-Peron-ism is the political version of Superman. Even as the followers of Superman trust in his extraordinary talents, so do the shirtless worshipers of Saint Perón believe in his special powers-divine, atomic...
Nabbed for speeding along a Connecticut highway at 70 miles an hour: radio's Superman, Michael Fitzmorris...
When Dixiecrat Laney tried to picture Sid McMath as a traitor to the South, supple Sid declared against such pet Truman projects as FEPC and compulsory health insurance, but still capitalized on his closeness to Harry Truman. Ben plaintively confessed that he had never learned "this glamour-boy, superman style of politicking," and even before primary day admitted: "He has had only 18 months in which to make political enemies. I had four full years...