Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What goes on in people's minds-and in their hearts-is more important in determining the fateful future than what goes on in laboratories and production centers. . . . There are no supermen, all-wise, to solve these problems for us. [But] an informed and understanding people will [not] be taken in by sweet talk, or scared by shadows, or stumble-or be pushed-into some desperate finality. There is no substitute, no good substitute, for the common-sense judgment of a whole people...
...Enemy of the People" deals with the root problem of democracy: are the common people, the "popular majority," competent to rule, or should the government be entrusted to the superior few, the intellectual supermen? The theme is alive today as it has never been before, and yet Ibsen's play fails to make it live on the stage...
...Create supermen...
...Japanese girl who knows both East & West, who in fact is so "Westernized" as to reject the creed that her countrymen are supermen, may I ask to express my candid opinion in your columns...
...translated into the Book of Mormon. Some years later another Mormon named James Jesse Strang found another cache of engraved tablets (brass this time) in Walworth County, Wis. In 1869 diggers near Cardiff, N.Y. unearthed what was thought to be petrified proof positive of a vanished race of American supermen-until it developed that the 2,966-lb. "giant" had been carved (out of Iowa gypsum) by a joker in Chicago...