Word: mensa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pages; $34.95), which collects about a fifth of her movie writing. So far as we know, that's all she wrote -- no fiction, no lit crit, no backward glance at an early life that included jobs as a seamstress, cook and children's companion (Auntie Mame from Mensa!). "I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs," she notes in the introduction to For Keeps. "I think I have...
...nervous student has ever found a way to turn their insecurity into a money-raising scheme--until now. This year, five first-years have started "Stupid People at Harvard" (SPAH), a not yet official organization for students who feel a bit out of place among the horde of MENSA members...
...many 9s do you pass when you start at 1 and count to 100? Eleven hundred men and women possessing a great facility for answering this and similar questions are spending a hot July weekend at Orlando's Peabody Hotel. They have come for the annual gathering of the Mensa society, a group that admits any applicant who has an intelligence-test score in the top 2% of the population; the question above is from a Mensa test, but SAT scores or any standard I.Q. test score will do. Mensa says it provides a "stimulating intellectual and social environment...
Barbara, a public-speaking instructor and professional psychic, does not dissemble about her reasons for joining a group that says it "encourages research into the nature, characteristics, and uses of intelligence." "Not being gorgeous or anything, I'm no man magnet," she says. "I joined Mensa to meet men." Happily, there are hundreds right here who aren't exactly woman magnets but who are very uninhibited about expressing their feelings. Indeed, I LOVE TO GIVE AND GET BACK RUBS and I NEED A HUG buttons are popular among Mensa males, and some of them are even more direct...
Maybe, just maybe, some of this year's Fishbowlers will be lucky enough to find the contentment that Janice and Stan now share. They met through Mensa and married. "I often had to hide my intelligence with men," says Janice, who is an employee-relations specialist and part-time clown. "With Stan, I can be myself...