Word: mensa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caro argues, not always convincingly, that the 36th President illegally ran a blind trust fund from the Oval Office and that his avarice and cunning were rooted in childhood. If, as Emerson wrote, "geniuses have the shortest biographies," Caro has envisioned an L.B.J. who was hardly a candidate for Mensa. With a probable 1,600 pages left to go, Caro has already concluded that Johnson lacked "any consistent ideology or principle, in fact, any moral foundation whatsoever." The book has come under considerable attack from critics, not all of them admirers of L.B.J. The opponents argue that the biographer...
...member of Mensa, a group of 33,000 people who have IQ scores in the top 2%, Graham first revealed his project last summer in an interview published in the Mensa Bulletin. He was seeking to place his Nobel sperm with bright women who were healthy, under 35 and preferably married to a sterile man. Two dozen wom en applied, and those who were chosen received physical descriptions of the anonymous Nobel donors-plus Graham's own assessments. "A very famous scientist," he wrote on the description of one of the five available mail-order fathers (to whom...