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Author Jungk found this particular superman in an aviation medical-research laboratory in California, whirling around in a centrifuge in an experiment actually calculated to save the lives of jet pilots under stress of heavy-gravity .pull. But Jungk likes the symbol far better than the simple fact. A onetime anti-Nazi German journalist, Jungk covered the U.S. for Swiss newspapers from 1947 to 1953, patiently stalking U.S. science and industry to find poor little superman in a hundred compromising poses. The total provides dazzling new evidence for old-world prejudices about the U.S.-prejudices which most European novelists...
...again the compressed lips from which the teeth stand out as a caricature. How the skull structure has pushed forward against the flesh of the cheeks which are flattened by a tremendous pressure, the skin of the forehead pulled back, the flesh of the chin sagging . . . Poor little superman...
...dance-drama of the early Kabuki called Shibaraku (Wait a moment), first seen in Tokyo in 1697, is still performed (see pictures opposite). Its hero, like many others in rough & tumble Kabuki tales, is a typical Oriental Superman who can lop off the heads of many opponents at a blow, lift houses with one finger, crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit...
...filling out. A good deal of personal determination entered into it. His mother remembers that Johnny went on a cod-liver-oil binge, once drank 17 pints of it in a single week. "Do you know who his idol was in those days?" asks Mrs. Lattner. "It was Superman." Johnny recalls: "By the time I was in the eighth grade, nobody picked on me any more...
...resentful recruits, makes a man of the weakling, falls in love with the girl but stays true to the Army-High Ground manages to generate a clumsy, convincing power. But not many ex-soldiers are likely to concede that 16 weeks of basic training -even under such a superman as Widmark-would result in the superbly trained and conditioned squad that marches offscreen, at the picture's end, to Dimitri Tiomkin's heroic music...