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...subdued before he could hijack a National Airlines jet in New York was discovered to be wearing women's underclothes. What is known about both men seems to confirm Hubbard's belief that skyjackers are emotionally disturbed. In his experience, they are not strong, masculine supermen but weak, longtime losers, men who have failed at life and love. They tend to be passive, effeminate, latently homosexual, and afraid of their eldest sisters and mothers...
...CURRENT SPATE of films starring, written and directed by blacks is filling urban movie houses and treating ethnic audiences to fantasy visions previously only colored white. Machismo, even in its white variety, is a hideous subject for glorification. But the black supermen in these movies roister about the contemporary cityscape like hyper Sam Spades without the Hammett moral sense. Sweetback or Shaft are totally ruthless people, oppressed by whites but equally disgusted by the lack of effectiveness of black community and cultural leaders. They are agents who wish to be totally free, and are concerned solely with their personal vendettas...
...sociological or ideological superiority is as absurd as trying to settle a United Nations debate with a foot race up First Avenue. And the tactic can backfire. At Berlin, Hitler had to sit and squirm as an American black-the legendary Jesse Owens-clearly outshone Germany's Nordic "supermen" to win gold medals in four events. Still, rampant nationalism continues to mock the purported ideals of the Olympics. Since 1952 the focus has been mainly on whether the U.S. team, representing a free, democratic society, could beat the Russians, carrying the banner for Communism. This year, a powerful East...
...killings (off stage) in the Greek theater. The Shakespearean stage was often littered with bodies by the fifth act. As early as the 19th century, American writers like Melville and Poe were beginning to show what Historian David Davis had called "un disguised sympathy for sublime murders and amoral supermen moved by demonic urges." That sympathy seems to have deepened recently, especially among movie directors. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. speaks of "a pornography of violence," and Critic Pauline Kael complains that "at the movies, they are desensitizing us." She objects to a film like Straw Dogs because it equates violence...
...rumor is correct, the archives will pretty well destroy the Australian notion that the nation's World War II soldiers were a breed of bronzed supermen. During the retreat from Singapore, 300 Aussie soldiers are said to have pushed aside women and children at gunpoint in order to get aboard the liner Empire Star. During the 1942 Japanese bombing of Darwin, soldiers panicked and fled the city ahead of civilians; one air-force deserter was found 300 miles away...