Word: moronization
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Psychologists classify a moron as one grade above an imbecile, two above an idiot. He has a mental age of eight to twelve, an I.Q. between 50 and 70. How does he get along, or does he? Dr. Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, sociologist at the Connecticut College for Women, made a survey of 256 morons, decided that in these days of full employment, the moron is generally employable and doing surprisingly well for himself...
...typical male moron, Dr. Kennedy reported in Boston last week to the American Association on Mental Deficiency, is a semiskilled worker earning between $35 and $55 a week, compared with the U.S. average industrial wage of $51.50. He gets to work on time, gets along very well with people smarter than he is. Movies are his favorite entertainment, though he also listens to the radio regularly. He marries, at an average age of 21.9 years, a wife who went farther in school than he, and has an average of one child. Dr. Kennedy made no test of the child...
...Harriet struggled to decide whether to turn her beloved over to Scotland Yard, "auntie" and the "vet" (two husky Russians who ran the London branch of the "Apparatus") tried to decide what to do about Harriet. Agent Lightfoot was an invaluable spy, but he had up & married a little moron without party consent, and (they decided) she would have to be "eliminated." Obviously, Agent Lightfoot was the man best qualified to do the eliminating. Lightfoot protested, but he took Harriet duck-hunting and tried to blow her head off. When he failed, the Apparatus decided that bungling Agent Lightfoot must...
...This child of mine has been resolutely kept to the average intelligence of thirteen years . . . as though you and your sponsors believe the majority of listeners have only moron minds. Nay, the curse of his commercials has grown consistently more cursed, year by year...
...Schlumbohm's pride & joy is Chemex, a glass coffeemaker that looks like an angular hourglass. Dr. Schlumbohm, who drinks six cups of coffee a day, invented it because he was sick of bad coffee. Said he: "With this, even a moron can make good coffee...