Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working 55-Service Troops and Death's Head Brigade-are not only entrusted with keeping German order but with producing a great race of supermen for puny Herr Himmler. 55 marriages-the bride's physical qualifications and racial background are thoroughly investigated-were once surrounded with Druidic ceremonies to impress the young couple with the ancient background of their Teutonic destiny. 55 colonies for young married couples are made attractive breeding grounds. Smart Herr Himmler has made his police service not only a service but a cult...
Nowadays, the record-breakers are to be found in the. Yale and Princeton squads, and Harvard, instead of producing a team of supermen, has turned out merely a group of very good swimmers. Whether Coach Uien can make his fairly well-balanced aggregation prevail against an equally well-balanced Eil squad or a star-studded Tiger team can only be discovered after the actual meets are held. The Big Three presents a trio of almost perfectly equal teams and the competition therefor will result in a Italic battle for the League crown...
...Mann's faith is an optimistic one, for to him, popular government will certainly triumph over any rule of the select or of Supermen. Democracy is a norm to which men, by their nature, will return. Because it is "rooted in the eternal hunger of the race," it will always reassert itself. Again democracy will triumph because, by its very refusal to concentrate on the production of Supermen, by its humility and criticism, it produces greater men than can Fascism...
...cracked last week: "If you could get together all those people who think they are Supermen and who really are not, it is my firm belief that they could work out a plan for peace. Peace can be planned in just the same way as an attack against cancer. My main proposal is that there should be a World Peace Conference...
...twice on Christmas Day. He left one invention, the gourdcumber, "a cucumber as drought-resistant as the Spanish gourd"; and many lengthy treatises, the last of which was The New Deal vs. The New World. His ambition, unfulfilled at death, was to find a formula for a race of supermen...