Word: ubermenschen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really "a compulsive self-revealing allegorist." Rosenberg unearths both hard and agreeably circumstantial evidence that Conan Doyle modeled the evil Professor Moriarty on Friedrich Nietzsche -not because the philosopher was a criminal but because Doyle's Vic torian conservativeness was offended by Nietzsche's ideas about Ubermenschen who were beyond good and evil...
...science-fiction writer. Arthur C. Clarke neither exploits the psychology of guilt and punishment with apocalypses nor sees future man as clones of bronzed Ubermenschen surfing out of Peter Max cornucopias. Basically, Clarke extrapolates the latest scientific theory and hardware into a future where good and evil are controlled under standard temperature and pressure...
...Ubermenschen. Mallory's secret, of course, is not secure. The Vatican learns of the gospel, goes into panic and dispatches a Dominican priest named Giovanni Delia Paresi to buy it from Mallory. Delia Paresi, however, sees his task more as a search-and-destroy mission than a commercial enterprise...
...ARTISTS AS UBERMENSCHEN: "We artists carry no tragedy within us, even if we are in despair and do away with ourselves . . . our minds stand back to watch us suffering and thereby mitigate the pain as it were, push our troubles into the background, transform them into a spectacle over which we can joke or philosophize...
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