Word: morons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Through a tragic error," ruled Judge Richard S. Heller for the New York Court of Claims last week, Prisoner Dennison was wrongly classified as a low-grade moron in 1927, declared criminally insane in 1936, and illegally confined without judicial review in a state asylum until 1960, when his half brother finally managed to win his release on a writ of habeas corpus. "Society labeled him as subhuman," declared Judge Heller, "placed him in a cage with genuine subhumans, drove him insane, and then used the insanity as an excuse for holding him indefinitely in an institution with...
...SHOW. Styled after the sappy smile of Mad magazine's trademark moron, Alfred E. Neuman, this revue tickles where it might have stung. But its cast still reaches the funny bone, satirizing everything from soap-flake operas to hi-fi nuts...
Thanks to its three-man, two-woman cast, the show is funnier than its material, which takes its style from the sappy smile of Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's trademark moron. The actors do versatile impersonations of the specialized zany-the hi-fi nut, the folksong nut, the technician nut whose means totally dwarf his ends. One of the funniest skits in the show features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing...
...most people in Nevada deeply respect Newcomer's educational philosophy. "There isn't a kid in the world who isn't a genius or a near genius in some things, or a moron in others," he says. The schools, says Newcomer, must "find ways to analyze each child in terms of his uniqueness as a human being...
...daughter say that the lamp is odd-man-out in the group of dog kennel, lamp, beehive and birds nest? Or does he think the bird's nest stands apart because it is not manmade? A few more groups like that and my daughter might come out a moron...