Word: moron
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...finding it, she would utilize the "inferior" one. An 8th grade student in school, she was found by Teacher Friendly's test (the standard Stanford-Binet test, said she) to have an Intelligence Quotient of 63-seven less than necessary to escape commitment. Teacher Friendly called Helen a moron, offered additional reasons why she should be sterilized: "The girl herself may turn out all right, but I don't think we want any of her progeny in this community . . . not the kind of stuff that makes good citizens . . . shiftless . . . little moral stamina though she knows the difference between...
...four room. What I would do to you! I'd blacken your eyes and give you some real American spirit and do for you what your parents should have done. . . . We spend billions in this country for schools and what have we educated here-a mongrel and a moron. . . . I have six kiddies myself and my oldest girl is ten. She knows who God is and the laws of the country. Down at my house we have a cat-o'-nine-tails. I show it, and that is all . . . that is needed. . . . I am not going to send...
...moron who shoulders uncomplainingly the unpleasant tasks of life. If any steps are taken to prevent the reproduction of morons, many lawyers, doctors, parliamentarians, preachers and Congressmen would have to go to work. . . . As a rule the ordinary moron works. . . .. The mass of the world's most important and also most disagreeable work is done by morons and others closest to the line. ... If we had no morons, it would seriously interfere with the paving of streets, building of sewers, running of railroads, factories and other industries and also raise havoc with church attendance. . . . The moron as a rule...
...familiar enough in every school, and, alas, in every college. He is the tortoise of the class, who struggles wearily on before the proddings of his parents and his schoolmasters. In the discreet fastness of the faculty room, his masters will tell you that he is a complete moron. His mother, on the other hand, will assure you that he is really quite brilliant, only he is so shy and sensitive that his masters never know it, for he becomes tongue-tied in class and paralyzed in examinations. Often enough, both are wrong. If the boy can be found some...
...quite agree with Subscriber Connolley in what he has to say with regard to TIME'S cinema reviews. They sound to me as though they were written by a moron or by some old crab who should be working for the Anti-Saloon League...