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...Plus IQ. City and Country owes its existence to Adolf Hitler. In 1936, the Nazis chased out Roeper's father...
David (Keir Dullea) is a 17-year-old boy with a high IQ and an obsessive-compulsive neurosis. He lives in morbid horror of dirt, in insane ambition to stop time and so cheat death, in panic dread that someday someone may touch him-"because a touch can kill." Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme...
...British magazine Nature, Hudson reports on results he got from tests based on the creativity theories of University of Chicago Psychologists Jacob W. Getzels and Philip W. Jackson (TIME, Oct. 31, 1960). They put forward the now respected idea that a high IQ is not a reliable sign of "giftedness." may simply indicate "convergent" thinking, or mental grey-flannelism. Truly creative children, they say, are "divergent" types who tend to find IQ tests boring, do not readily accept the "right" answer as the right one. Seeking a better gauge than IQ, the Chicago team devised various tests to spot divergents...
...Dreaded "Eleven Plus." The 1944 act confronts children emerging from six years in state primary schools (at ages 10½ to 11½) with the dreaded "eleven-plus exam''-typically an IQ test, an arithmetic test, an English composition...
Beyond the Fringe. Four high-IQ British imps skewer cliches and milk sacred cows for irreverent merriment. The chief scholar-clown, Dr. Jonathan Miller, is a droll, gravity-defying pixy for whom a new vocabulary of humor will have to be invented...