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Most psychologists have now abandoned the notion that intelligence can be accurately tested; it is difficult even to define the terms. Einstein once confessed to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu that in the Australian Aborigine's society, he would rightfully be regarded as an intellectual idiot who could neither track a wallaby nor throw a boomerang. As Anthropologist Stanley Garn has dryly noted, if the Aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. "It is possible that some of the behavioral differences between human groups may be genetically determined," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Ernst Goldschmidt...
...Bible, though at least it isn't poetry they convert into soap opera. The director, Roger Corman, picked sensational topics--Hell's Angels and acid. Then he shot some film, dressed it up with a big-beat score, and prayed nobody would discover what he is: an idiot. Of course, with a couple more pictures like these, he will also be a Hollywood tycoon...
...final condemnation of the day, Mrs. Tuchman chose LSD. After cataloguing a few of the marvels of our times, she concluded, "It is an age that keeps one's mind popping continually and why any idiot needs LSD to expand his mind in this of all times, is to me a mystery...
...huge log or waded through a muddy pond, each child was expected to do the same. When one wet and bedraggled little Roosevelt tried to explain to her angry mother that she merely had followed the leader, the mother snapped: "Just because your cousin Theodore behaves like an idiot is no reason why you should behave like an idiot...
...associates explained that Carson "thrives on topical humor. He looks like an idiot talking about Christmas in those old tapes they have been using." That sounded reasonable, except that Carson had never complained before about the chopped-up, ad-ridden Tonight repeats that NBC runs every Sunday night of the year. At that point, Carson, who was lolling out the strike on the beach at Fort Lauderdale, came up with another and loftier justification of his stand. "I was required to join AFTRA in order to work for the network," he said. "I know of no business except the broadcasting...