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...things should be kept in mind, however, as the season enters the final three weeks. This is not the best outfit that ever has or will play for Harvard. It is obviously not made up of a bunch of supermen...
Died. John O. Levinson, 59, Chicago attorney who, as a nine-year-old boy, was the original murder target of self-styled "Supermen" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; of cancer; in Portland, Me. Levinson was a friend of Loeb's younger brother Tommy in 1924 when the jaded teen-age duo decided on him as the victim of their "perfect crime." The pair attempted to follow Levinson home from a sand-lot baseball game, but he had turned down a different street from the usual one and inadvertently eluded them. They then killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks instead...
...Ecology" which could help predict "biological, intellectual, and economic consequences." At the forefront of his "free will" is a new "mass of capable men," engendered by sterilization programs in which mankind can "tolerate no dark corners where the people of the abyss may fester." In A Modern Utopia, these supermen are called Samurai. And even though they rule over a socialist state, it is they--and not the masses--who are the key to the society. His gigantic Outline of History is more Wells than history, as again, nations and cultures rise because of a ruling elite, and fall...
Oates' point seems to be that both supermen are bested by this apparent power vacuum. Howe cannot stop her from walking out on him-without alimony but picking up the $100 bills he flings after her. This climactic scene echoes Nora's liberation in A Doll's House. Elena comes as close as she ever does to coherent motivation. She is leaving, she says, because "I would be careless of my life if I stayed here ... I might make someone hurt...
...rather remarkable story. He was, these last years, abused and downgraded and ignored by Nixon and his supermen and yet he has stayed loyal, kept his honor, and goes off as one of the President's few remaining displays of decency and good humor...