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...though he may act like a big deal, deep down he is a little schlemiel who can't even rob a grave without losing the body. Chased by cops and robbers, Caesar is saved at the final fade-out only by dumb luck and a dumber script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Bury Caesar | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

There was one student at Yale who was even dumber than Cavett - a rich alumnus' son named Clarence. On a final exam, a multiple-choice question was posed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Country Boy | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...superintendent of schools in Boston, give no clue to a student's "gumption quotient." Moreover, it is not uncommon to find an error of ten points or more in many IQ scores. For example, a child with 120 may not necessarily be brighter than one with 110 or dumber than one with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing: The Growing Unimportance of IQs | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...Dumber & Dumber. In short, the schools are still failing those who need them most. School officials blame "cultural deprivation," the slum kid's lack of drive and books at home. As he falls behind in reading, he gets "dumber and dumber" in school. At Manhattan's High School of Commerce, for example, only one-fifth of this fall's entering tenth-graders read at ninth-grade level or above. "We do our best for our students," says Principal Murray Cohn, "but they just can't keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Civilizing the Blackboard Jungle | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

Assisted by a menagerie of muggs who are even dumber than he is. Bugsy heists a Liberty ship from the mothball fleet in the Hudson River and sails it to Boston-that tiny brain figures as how the Liberty ship will come in handy for the getaway, but it forgets to figure as how nobody in the gang can operate the overgrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Unsussessful Crinimal | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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