Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...count, "more than 5,000" times. The body of literature devoted to his life and exploits runs to perhaps 2,000,000 words of prose and 200 of poetry, chock-full of such fascinating revelations as that he sleeps naked, trims his beard with fingernail scissors, has an IQ of 127 and hates the nickname "Wilt the Stilt." No one has seemed able to agree on two fairly important and somewhat related points about Wilt Chamberlain: 1) how tall he is, and 2) how good...
...significantly higher than the rest in such qualities as drive (the energy put into daily activities), leadership (the tendency to lead others, to manipulate people rather than things), and achievement (actual accomplishment, plus the degree of pride with which it was reported) -all personality traits, as dis tinct from IQ ratings...
...told in a peculiarly simplistic fashion-costume-drama style minus costume-designed to give somnambulistic inevitability to the dreadful action. The hypnotic effect may not take in some readers who will be irritated by the tones of an adult careful not to use big words to a low-IQ child. Moreover, Fast's publishers call Torquemada a tour de force; it could also be a sleight of hand. How it is read probably depends on how much the reader knows of history, not excluding the history of Howard Fast...
...Negro hood with a 187 IQ--who quotes literature with a Paladin-like facility--has killed his prostitute mother with an ice pick. He hides in the candy store of a German who deserted his Jewish wife and son to fight for the Communists against the Nazis; but who ended up running carloads of Jews to concentration camps, and now pretends to have been a Jewish concentration camp victim. Finally, Rosie, and NYU coed who wants to be a writer, drops in on her way to the abortionist...
...commonly accepted minimum IQ rating for "genius...