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...composed of many diverse personality faculties, the interaction of which is not ascertainable, and demonstrably not tested by I.Q. tests, which measure only development rates among children and do this only in terms of certain faculties which may be desirable and needed under certain conditions but are quite useless in other situations. The genetics of human intelligence is not scientifically well enough established to be used as a political weapon; the propagation of intelligence through generations obeys sociological, psychological and biological laws which override completely the possibility of political predictions based on the partial knowledge given by I.Q. measurements...
...name of Argentina or Egypt and not in the name of international brotherhood. Authoritarian nationalist regimes, lacking a coherent view of the world and their tnterdependent place in it, generally fail to develop their nations industrially. They find surviving on charisma alone difficult. As a distorted and useless response to imperial domination, authoritarian nationalism merely underscores imperialism's crippling effects in subject nations...
Politically, students are cynical because the student movement failed to bring about the changes it sought, and therefore think that it is useless to try to bring about political change altogether. But this conclusion doesn't follow. Throughout the sixties, the Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Socialist Club) was saying that the student movement was doomed to fail as long as it persisted in cutting itself off from the majority of the American people...
...Chaplin is not trying to make the simpleminded and useless statement that even murderers have their good points. He is after something deeper, exploring the ambivalences of modern society. Verdoux deeply believes his acts are excusable, and we want to know why. The only time he allows himself to be swayed from his unhesitating ruthlessness is when he picks up a derelict girl (Marilyn Nash) in order to test a new poison and finds that she, like him, could "kill for love." When he discovers their similarity, she gains his respect. He removes her poisoned glass of wine with...
University police said last night that enough locks would be changed to make the stolen master keys useless...