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...hundred, to say nothing of twenty-five years. There is still a premium put on hard, honest and earnest pursuit of truth, to wherever it may lead. There is still a healthy respect for ideas, a vicious competition between them, and a realization that professors are not supermen with super-human responsibilities, but just people, with all the rights and foibles of same. As revered in the lull of 1928 as in the crisis of 1953, these principles are part of a truly conservative tradition of the University, a tradition that makes it even today "calm rising through change...
...Supreme Court has not consented to hear such First Amendment claims in recent cases involving congressional investigations. That is not a reason for failing to assert rights which the individual citizen believes that he possesses. The denial of certiorari, we are told repeatedly, is not an adjudication by the Supermen Court. The Court has frequently changed its mind in the past where it has come to realize the significance of the problem presented...
...modern times, practitioners who set out to cure the ills of the mind tend to be looked up to as supermen who may not be denied or defied. As such, they have taken over many of the attributes of power once vested in priests and kings, shamans and devil doctors. How are they using their powers over the minds...
...press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample; "Our church is over the brow of yonder eminence...
...occasionally visits her husband in the prison, called a press conference in Bonn. The Spandau prisoners are ailing and aging, she reported. Hess is "even more insane and often screams." Neurath is almost blind and must be led about the prison. She painted a tearful picture of the dethroned supermen (actually they have four doctors to guard their health, gardens to work in, books to read...