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Word: supermen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League is succumbing to the Cult of the Personality. Games are becoming personal contests between two supposed supermen rather than 22-man affairs. Cornell didn't play Columbia two Saturday's ago: Gary Wood fought Archie Roberts. Cornell's game with Dartmouth this week is primarily interesting because it brings together Wood and Bill King...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/14/1962 | See Source »

...surrender, but brief glances into their lives remain in the scribbled pages of their diaries and journals. These diaries are not only added evidence of North Vietnamese intervention in the South, but a full reading of them reveals the nature of the enemy. The guerrillas are far from being supermen; they suffer cold, hunger and other hardships. But they are fiercely indoctrinated, to the point of thinking and writing in Communist jargon, and in their idealism, however misguided, lies much of their strength-a strength the U.S. must understand in order to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Face of the Enemy | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...final report, Bender spoke out against "academic elitism," calling for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent, uncomplicated human beings . . . to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Bender, Elder Note Disagreement With Conant Report on Education | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...passionate concern of some sort. We might even have a few who aren't particularly distinguished in anyways, who aren't brilliant leaders, who are just plain, ordinary decent, uncomplicated human being like so many faculty sons and Harvard sons, to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Dean Bender's Valedictory Message | 10/2/1961 | See Source »

...most anxious to talk about it at the Peace Corps office. Bill Moyers, a 28-year-old former Baptist minister, is Associate Director of Public Affairs. "We are under no illusions that this is a panacea. We aren't overly optimistic, and we don't think we're supermen," he said at the outset...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS | Title: A Tour Through the Peace Corps | 8/10/1961 | See Source »

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