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...abstract intelligence it could be that L.B.J., Nixon and Carter would rate highest among the modern Presidents. All suffered from a lack of judgment and proportion, which does not show up in IQ tests...
Cats is a musical that sweeps you off your feet but not into its arms. It is a triumph of motion over emotion, of EQ (energy quotient) over IQ. One could say at the end of the evening what someone says during the show: "We had the experience but missed the meaning." In Cats, the spectacle is the substance...
...with flashing threats of lightning. You could count the night stars, the fireflies, the dewdrops, the hairs on a lady mouse's arm. The wisest, oldest owl peers omnisciently from his sepulcher of cobwebs. A clumsy crow trips over his own feet and executes a dazzling arabesque. Genius-IQ rats, escapees from deadly experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), live in an underground palace as glimmering and precise as the Wizard's wonderful Oz. Our heroine, the lady mouse Mrs. Brisby, enlists the rats' aid to save her family from imminent death; she falls...
...Paul is harder to place; neither we nor anyone else knows where he is going. Though most of the plot concerns him and his failures, it flip-flops pointlessly, meandering as unsympathetically as the character himself "Don't downgrade yourself," his mother constantly nags. "A hundred and forty-eight IQ is genius." But Paul hangs his head, stutters and complains that the people and the walls are closing in at school. So he doesn't go and spends hours gazing at the wonders in the magic store...
...Gluecks measured "capacity to work" through questions about regular household chores, participation in extracurricular clubs or sports, school grades relative to IQ, regular participation in school activities, and "coping capacity...