Word: iq
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Euclidean theologies." Of the Catholic Church and its flock he writes jovially: "The whip it cracks over them is barbed with the fear of Hell, but the cracking is done with infinite discretion, and a fine understanding of psychology as she blows in the lower IQ brackets." But the necessities of an extended argument weigh heavily on Paragrapher Mencken's pen; much of the fire has gone out of his bluster. Treatise on Right & Wrong is written tiredly, its Menckenian tricksiness a little dingy from much wear. Carelessness sometimes trips him into such howlers as this: "Nero, as Tacitus...
...insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive tuition (or, at all events, of pleasant recreation) for downright idiots...