Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grisliest horror stories of the century-the Loeb-Leopold murder case. Told in 20 scenes and lasting some three and a half hours, Compulsion begins just after two young homosexuals have, with long-calculated wantonness, killed a 14-year-old boy. There follow revelations of self-styled supermen who had dreamed of committing a perfect crime; of gay, violent, vicious Artie Straus (Richard Loeb) and his "superior slave," Judd Steiner (Nathan Leopold); of how imperfect a crime the two had actually committed; of their dissension as danger looms, their behavior as detection narrows; of the fantasy worlds in which both...
...bitterness of the Tory attack angered Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent who had, until then, been scrupulously careful not to criticize Britain publicly. He fired back the blunt charge that Britain, France and Israel had "taken the law into their own hands." Snapped St. Laurent: "The era when the supermen of Europe could govern the whole world is coming pretty close...
...Well," replied Ike, "suppose they voted for you. Would you be astonished?" Scherer, who obviously was, gasped: "I certainly would." Then Ike took the opportunity to express a bit of homely political philosophy. In the U.S. "we are raised in the tradition of no supermen and no indispensable men, and therefore if you do retain some of the humility and modesty with which you hope you were born, why I believe that when [someone] comes along and says. 'I believe you are doing a pretty fair job as President of the U.S.,' you would be rather astonished...
...shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees between Rehovoth and the border. Those captured proved no supermen. They said they had been trained in Cairo, dispatched on their murderous errands by the Egyptian army intelligence chief at Gaza. Moaned one 18-year-old: "My father owns a tobacco shop, and he begged me not to become a fedayee. Oh, how I wish I had listened...
Though his name is Varnoff and he wears the traditional clothes, Varnoff is a new kind of monster-maker. He makes his supermen with "the atom elements." His story also seems influenced by the development of Psychotherapy ("Here in this forsaken jungle hell I have come to prove myself alright."), though it is not known whether there was an analyst for this swamp...