Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college to review their knowledge of the recent news; more than 1,000,000 students took it in January. Beginning this week, it becomes available to the public on sale at key news dealers across the country (price: 10?). If you would like to rate your own "News IQ," look for the TIME Current Affairs Test at your neighborhood newsstand. And if you checked B above, you're off to a good start...
...jargon of educationists, the corrupting TV-loot mentality, the jingoistic powerelites of government, business and education. There is one brief moment of absurdly human pathos when the boy himself (Brian Chapin) agrees to go with the child buyer in the hope that "some day, I might achieve an IQ of over...
...wiping out almost all the gains that have painfully and step by step been made in painting during the last five hundred years." Hartford considers Picasso a potentially great painter who never developed, but chose instead to create "by means of mental gymnastics such as those glorified in IQ tests...
...young Negro of high IQ and frayed nerves has stabbed his prostitute mother to death. A German ex-Communist has deserted his Jewish wife and child, abandoning them to torture and death in a Nazi concentration camp. An unmarried but pregnant N.Y.U. coed has lost her way to a Brooklyn abortionist and stumbled into the German's desolate stationery shop to sit on one of the counter stools where each character recites his or her autocryography. The theatergoer is thus once again in the weepy, hysterical presence of collectors of guilt, dispensers of self-pity, proclaimers of futility...
...addition and subtraction by using weighted numerals that hang from each end of the bar; only the combined weight of a two and a seven, for example, will balance a nine. Playskool Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which got many of its long-popular peg-and-hole toys from standard IQ tests, now makes a 100-bead counting board similar to the teaching materials of Montessori schools...