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Psychologists classify a moron as one grade above an imbecile, two above an idiot. He has a mental age of eight to twelve, an I.Q. between 50 and 70. How does he get along, or does he? Dr. Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, sociologist at the Connecticut College for Women, made a survey of 256 morons, decided that in these days of full employment, the moron is generally employable and doing surprisingly well for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: Life of the Moron | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...standing 40 feet below in the interest of safety, if you can call it that. He indulges one of history's most perverse senses of humor by appearing periodically as if he is about to fall. Maybe he wasn't joking. If he wasn't, the man is an idiot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

...Idiot. A fine French adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel (TiME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Idiot (French). A skeletal but sensitive reproduction of Dostoevsky's novel about a modern Christ. Memorable for the work of France's new idol Gérard Philippe, as Prince Myshkin, and of Edwige Feuill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Foreign Films | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...process of reconstructing humanity to fit The Machine, Lenin's followers smashed men as freely as the idiot boy of Nottingham had smashed machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Dr. Crankley's Children | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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