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...complexities are elucidated - little is known about Atatürk's emotional problems, and Kinross is too responsible to speculate. He simply presents the available facts and sets them in a good light. Kemal Atatürk emerges as a political genius immingled with a moral moron, a man with the intellect of a Western liberal and the disposition of an Oriental despot, a loving father to his country all day long, but after sunset a dedicated lecher and incorrigible lush...
...great ironies of the computer is that it would rate as a low-grade moron if given an IQ test. "With a computer," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp., "everything is reversed. If a one-year-old child can do it, a computer can't. A computer can calculate a trajectory to the moon. What it cannot do is to look upon two human faces and tell which is male and which is female, or remember what it did for Christmas five years ago." Bellman might get an argument about that from some computermen, but his point...
...industry's three-year boom and dent the whole economy. Noting that the auto companies are enjoying "fantastic" profits, the union figures this is a good year to step up to the higher-priced field itself. President Walter Reuther insists that "only a fool or an economic moron could suggest that we are not entitled to greater equity...
...story centers on Reuben (Bruce Ritchey), whose parents (Gena Rowlands and Steven Hill) self-indulgently refuse for more than five years to admit that they have produced a moron, and then resentfully abandon him in a state school. Crushed by this rejection, Reuben vaguely longs for the parents who let him be a baby and specifically hates the psychologist-headmaster (Burt Lancaster) who demands that he grow up. One day a new teacher comes to the school, an amiable but muddled musician (Judy Garland) who represents the common confusions of feeling about defective children. At first she feels revulsion, then...
Bleak Ending. The author's dawn men are a tiny, dejected band-six adults, one of them a moron (his mind makes few telepathic pictures), a small girl and an infant. Hungrily they trudge to their upland hunting grounds at the end of winter. They know that their numbers a're fewer than in past years, but they do not know why. Neither does the reader, who is left to speculate on plagues and warfare. Golding gives no more information than is available through the eyes of the Neanderthals-a difficult technique, but well suited to evoking...