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...basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group of immigrants ever tested at Ellis Island...
...tired. She has the sniffles. She has never been less interested in a blind date. But then: up-angle, backlight, and there he stands in her doorway, impeccably tailored, elegantly casual in manner?a perfectly beautiful man with, as she soon discovers, a singular style of speech. He is confident without being overbearing, confidential without being intrusive, quite inimitable despite the fact that the actor playing her visitor had one of the most imitated voices of this century. Never in the history of movies has a leading lady more quickly overcome her languors in order to get ready for romance...
...everyday triumphs and failures. He examined and exposed bravery and cowardice, in others and in himself. He dissected tyrannies large and small, in the high offices where power is held and guarded, and on the street, in the slums, and on the road, where gestures of kindness and casual acts of cruelty constantly occur. To my mind, Another of Day of Life and Shah of Shahs, about the mechanics of the Islamic revolution in Iran, are his finest works. Others might vote for The Emperor, about the court of Ethiopia's longtime dictatorial emperor, Haile Selassie, or The Soccer...
...Fred Astaire or the bride of Christ in The Nun's Story. Indeed, in her transformation movies - Sabrina and Funny Face and My Fair Lady - she always looked more gorgeous in Phase One (mousy) than Phase Two (elegant), more ravishing with her hair down than up, with her dress casual than couture...
...boundaries he may never have faced while living with Devlin. "He's tested the boundaries, pushed a little here and there," said Craig Akers. "But that's okay. Since he has been back, he and a girl he knew very well before he was taken have struck up a casual relationship. We've had to have a talk with him, and tell him that she can't come over to the house unless someone else is there with them, and if they go in his room, the door will have to stay open. All the normal kinds of things...